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The 14th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research

Akureyri Iceland, September 22-25, 2005                         

 

 

Culture and Society - Nature - Economy

 

Culture and Society - Stream 1

 

 

Friday              

10:45 – 12:45                      

Lyngnes & Sletvold   Use of Viking resources in Nordic tourist attractions  

Burnett & Burnett      Resources for cultural tourism in the Northern Periphery: a Scottish perspective on aspects of a shared heritage past and a common cultural present             

Ericsson                 Tourism Impacts of Cultural Events in Small Towns in Norway          

Braunerhielm           The place of cultural heritage - A case study of the production and consumption of a tourism destination in Grythyttan, Sweden 

15:40 – 17:40             

Helgadottir                 How do managers of cultural institutions relate to cultural tourism?                  

Olsen                          Museums as tourist attractions          

Karlsdóttir                  Staging tourism: the question of authenticity                    

                             

             

Saturday

10:45 – 12:45

Honkanen                  Climbing the ladder: Past travel experience in childhood and cultural travel motivations    

Daugstad                   When the farmer becomes a provider of landscapes and rurality and the tourist wants a part of "authentic rural life": a story of insiders and outsiders in the Norwegian landscape  

Luoto                          Places at the crossroads of fiction and non-fiction: Rural "theme villages" reviewed in Finland and Scotland       

Kvistgaard                 MÖN 2004 - Results from a research project on socio-culturally sustainable tourism experiences       

 

14:00 – 15:30                            

Furunes&Mykletun    Locals' appreciation of tourism development in Bagamoyo, Tanzania        

Jóhannesson             Tracing Tourism: Relational approach to tourism development                

Kaae                           A model of resident coping with tourism impacts         

             

             


 

 

Economy and policy - Stream 1

 

Friday

10:45 – 12:45            

Larson et al.               Mapping festival stakeholders: Cases in Calgary, Canada and Sweden              

Björk & Virtanen        Hub-firms in tourism networks and co-operation facilitators    

Tuohino et al.             CET model for joint enterprise network analysis and development - a useful tool for collaborative SMTEs  

Komppula                  Performance determinants in small and micro tourism businesses                 

 

15:40 – 17:40             

Holma                         The dynamics of business relationships in business travel industry – a triadic approach   

Sigurdardottir            The operating environment of equine tourism in Iceland

Nilsson                       Cruise tourism and the new tourist - Is it time for a new definition?   

Mykletun                     Patrons’ responses to smoking bans in cafés, bars, nightclubs and restaurants in Norway           

             

Saturday

10:45 – 12:45                    

Bakkevig et al.          On becoming a professional in the hospitality industry             

Řgaard                      Are they really that different? Organizational Archetypes in the service industry

Gudmundson             Results from a study of job characteristics amongst employees - in seasonal tourism businesses        

Bredvold                     Job satisfaction in Tourism SMITEs  

             

14:00 – 15:30                            

Lundberg                    Critical incidents in service encounters at a Swedish tourism shopping destination: the employee perspective  

Anderson                    Restaurant accounting systems for the experience economy    

Gestsson et al.          Management in the Icelandic travel industry         

 

 

Economy and policy - Stream 2

 

Friday

10:45 – 12:45                                                      

Jónsson                     The impact of tourism in the Icelandic rural areas          

Halpern                       Airport marketing as a means of exploiting the potential for tourism in Europe's northern periphery       

Larsen et al.               It's safer at home" - Subjective food-risk judgement in tourists       

Syvertsen                   How to achieve economic growth in Montenegro using social capital and intellectual capital as tools; Preliminary findings from the Igalo Spa Centre

15:40 – 17:40             

Skalpe                        The CEO gender pay gap in the tourism industry. Evidence from Norway

Mossberg                  Storytelling and concept development in hospitality and tourism

       

 

Culture and Society/Economy and policy - Stream 2

 

Saturday

10:45 – 12:45               

Marjavaara                 Second Home Development and Population Change in Attractive Rural Communities – Evidence from Sweden       

Hiltunen                      Mobility patterns of second home owners - Travelling from Helsinki Region to the Finnish Lakeland       

Müller                          Amenity Migration and Tourism Development in the Tärna Mountains, Sweden    

Karlsson&Lönnbring Let's show them every day: On successful woman entrepreneurs in rural areas             

14:00 – 15:30

Ness                           Strategic developement of destination and the role of Internetwork bridging ties     

Gyimóthy                    From Slow Food to Scary Food: the Ludic Turn in Gastronomic Tourism  

Mykletun et al.            Scary food: The renaissance of the sheep head meal in Norway         


 

 

Nature

 

Friday

10:45 – 12:45                           

Alakoski                     Customer value of nature-based activities                 

Saethorsdottir            Usefulness of the purist scale when planning Nature tourism    

Haukeland                 Tourist perspectives on overgrown landscapes in rural areas  

Ankre & Emmelin      Planning for a Mosaic of Values in a Discontinuous Landscape - Planning for recreation in the Luleĺ Archipelago, Sweden       

15:40 – 17:40                        

Sparf                          Choosing right - evaluating and comparing eco-tools

Bollason                     Nature based tourism product development - Experience from the Westfjords of Iceland 

Ţórđarson&AradóttirHot bathing springs - A resource in Icelandic tourism

A.Cederholm           Tourists and global environmental change: a possible        & Hultman                 scenario in relation to nature and authenticity 

        

Saturday

14:00 – 15:30                                        

Lundmark                  The role of national parks and protected areas for labour market restructuring: From forest sector employment to tourism?       

Wall                             Hikers’ Experiences and Stressed Reindeer: Interactions of back-country hikers with semi-domesticated reindeer   

Fredman                    Tourism in the context of National Park Designation  

       

             

             

Education/Research

 

Saturday

10:45 – 12:45                                       

Johansen & Larsen   Is tourism really more difficult?                  

Ball                              Hospitality Management Research Leadership in Universities          

Gauthier&Marnburg  Knowledge management issues in the hospitality industry. What do we know?  

Valsson                      Adult education at the Icelandic Tourist Guide School: Students profile, their motivation to study and barriers to participation  

        

 

Marketing

 

Friday

10:45 – 12:45                                                                         

Gunnarsdóttir             Rural destination marketing: A case study from North Iceland 

Alatalo & Ahtola        Micro-sized tourism businesses in joint marketing and product development process 

Blichfeldt &Jepsen    Having nothing better to do: Why people spend their vacations at a nearby caravan site 

Therkelsen                 Holiday decision making in families - strategies and outcomes        

15:40 – 17:40                              

Zillinger                       A spatial approach on tourists' travel routes and activities  

Björk                           Web sites features and emotional response - an analysis of tour operator's web sites

Lyngnes&Rosendahl Norwegian tourist attractions market communication - what and how  

Jacobsen                   Winter wonderland? Assessment of downhill ski holidays in Norway        

              

Saturday

10:45 – 12:45                                                                                     

Therkelsen&Halkier  Negotiating Place Branding Umbrellas Images, functional diversity and organisational positioning in coordinated national tourism and business promotion.

Eskilsson&Nilsson    Creating cross border destinations. Interreg projects as tools for destination development

Blom                           A five-aspect-meal model for the development of tourism and hospitality        

Laerdal et al.              Atmosphere as a key dimension for destination  development              

 

14:00 – 15:30             

Blichfeldt                    Unmanageable destination images?       

OOi                             Denmark through Chinese Eyes: Returning the imagination

Vujicic                         Do you communicate photographic messages effectively? A study of advertisers' compositions of photographic messages and potential tourists' interpretations of photographic messages in tourist brochures

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