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Digital Sámi Culture Narratives in Tourism: Balancing Commercialization, Revitalization, and Sustainability?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-11-14)Previous research has criticized companies and marketing organizations for portraying Sámi culture with a narrative of the pre-modern and the exotic. This qualitative study delves into representations of Sámi culture within the digital realm, examining visual and verbal content on Sámi tourism entrepreneur’s websites. This study’s focus is to investigate Sámi tourism entrepreneurs´ own representations. ... -
More-than-human agency on the Pacific Ocean
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-11-01)This master’s thesis explores more-than-human agencies on the Pacific Ocean. Currently, tourism research is insufficient to address complex sustainability and environmental challenges and needs new narratives to do its part in tackling these issues. The aim of this master’s thesis project was to gain new tourism narratives and to create tourism knowledge through an approach where humans are de-centered ... -
Ski guiding and risk management - A qualitative study on Nortind educated ski guides
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-11-01)Avalanche fatalities claim lives in Norway each year. Yet, there is limited research on how ski guides ensure safety and manage risks on behalf of their clients. By studying how ski guides, educated through The Norwegian Mountain Guide Association (Nortind), manage this, I seek to fill this gap. The study is based on seven semi-structured interviews, supplemented by my autoethnographic reflections ... -
Building a High North Growth Pole: The Northern Norwegian City of Hammerfest in the Wake of Developing the "Snow White" Barents Sea Gas field
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-04-25)Global oil industries are moving from well-established economic centres to remote areas in the north. This paper addresses regional impacts, and links the analyses and discussions to theories embedded in Keynes inspired ideas from the 1950'ies of state opportunities to build growth poles in peripheries by governing entering industries. The article analyses changes in the North-Norwegian city of ... -
Installed base as a facilitator for user-driven innovation: How can user innovation challenge existing institutional barriers?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012-12-06)The paper addresses an ICT-based, user-driven innovation process in the health sector in rural areas in Norway. The empirical base is the introduction of a new model for psychiatric health provision. This model is supported by a technical solution based on mobile phones that is aimed to help the communication between professional health personnel and patients. This innovation was made possible through ... -
Anglophone hegemony in tourism studies today
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-06-29)Building on a recent co-edited work (Dann and Liebman Parrinello, 2009), this account seeks to demonstrate that tourism studies as a field has been unjustifiably dominated by English speakers. The point is illustrated firstly in terms of its four major theories that claim to have their origin in the Anglophone world of the 70s in spite of the realisation that they had their antecedents in ... -
"Herrer i eget hus". Finnmarksloven i media
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2012)In 2005, the Norwegian Parliament passed the Finnmark Act, with ownership of 96 % of Finnmark transferred from the State to the inhabitants of Finnmark. This article discusses the dominant arguments for and against the Act in two local newspapers in Finnmark. The debate was intense. Would the Finnmark Act lead to private ownership based on ethnicity, or equal ownership? Different understandings of ... -
Communicating Paradox: Uncertainty and the Northern Lights
(Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2015)While many characteristics of tourism products are well known, relatively little work has explored elements of uncertainty and risk. Little is known about how tourism operators communicate aspects of uncertainty. This qualitative study uses content analysis to explore the language used in promotional material of tour operators and destination management organisations to communicate the unpredictable ... -
Mellom borealisme og orientalisme. Fortellinger og forestillinger om 'de andre' i nordlysturismen
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2017)The article takes as its point of departure a media narrative, relating that Northern Lights tourists from the East are not only visiting the northern areas to experience the celestial phenomenon, as their actual hope is to conceive under the Lights. According to alleged old beliefs in the East, this is supposed to give handsomer, healthier, and more intelligent children. The location of these beliefs ... -
Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assemblages in Culture, Capital, and Identities
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017)What challenges lie in the indigenous tourism project? What is the significance to consider when using culture as a basis for business development? What basic paradoxes and challenges will be met when one wants to achieve growth in Sami tourism and the creative cultural industries? It is believed that Sami culture has an unredeemed potential as a product and attraction in the new and major initiatives ... -
Norske familier i Arguineguin: Norske livsstilsmigranter i Arguineguin i en familiekontekst
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)Livsstilsmigrasjon i et familieperspektiv til Arguineguin er en trend som startet rundt 1960- tallet, men har hatt økende popularitet og stedet har norske institusjoner og infrastruktur mot nordmenn Jeg utførte en kvalitativ undersøkelse for å utforske årsaker som push- og pull -til at norske familier reiste fra Norge og til Arguineguin, hvordan de opplevde livene sine i Arguineguin og grunner til ... -
Event planning: Crafting the perfect Chale Wote Street Art Festival atmosphere; How event planners are making a memorable event
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)The thesis centers around the planning of an art festival known in Ghana known as Chale Wote Street Art Festival hosted every year in August in the Jamestown community, The objective of this study was to understand and explore how event planners of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival can create and host it continuously even with the economic challenges that affect the everyday lives of organisations, ... -
Guidekompetanse i naturbasert reiseliv på Svalbard – kompetansekrav sett i lys av den enkelte turs egenskaper
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-06)Oppgaven søker å belyse hvilke relevante kompetansekrav som kan eller bør stilles til de som skal guide gjester i norsk natur, og med Svalbard som empirisk utgangspunkt. Det vil særskilt bli vurdert hvorvidt det kan eller bør stilles differensierte krav, ut fra nærmere angitte karakteristika ved turene, som lengde/omfang, terreng, vanskelighetsgrad og risikobilde. I litteraturen benyttet i oppgaven ... -
Harnessing the Power of the Arctic: Connecting tourists to nature through dog sledging activities.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)This qualitative study explores the complex pockets of co-created interaction and throwntogetherness that produce meanings and value through an ethnographic sensory investigation of dog sledging tourism in Finnmark. I draw on a multirelational and multisensorial perspective on dog sledging, which means a holistic and socially constructed way of understanding Human-Animal Bonding (HAB) (DeMello, ... -
Gendered Issues and Voices in Public Discourses on Industrial Development in Northern Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-03)This article deals with gender and industrial developments in the northernmost part of Norway, where there are growing opportunities within the mining, oil and gas industries. Large companies move into the region for shorter or longer periods of time, leading to restructuring and change in these rural areas. These industries are typically male-dominated, and many of the workers coming to the region ... -
Miljøsertifisering av reiselivsbedriften - hvilken verdi har det for organisasjonen?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-11-13)Miljømerking av reiselivsbedrifter er blitt mer og mer vanlig og anses som en viktig bidragsyter i det å gjøre reiselivsnæringa mer bærekraftig. Det er i Norge i dag flere ulike merkeordninger og på verdensbasis snakker man om at det finnes over hundre ulike miljømerker. Samtidig som praksisen med å jobbe fram miljøsertifiseringer i reiselivsbedrifter brer om seg, øker også diskusjonene rundt en ... -
Hvilke muligheter og utfordringer finnes i samarbeidet mellom Visit Ål og medlemsbedriftene sine?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-11-15)Visit Ål sin medlemsmasse består av mange små, privateide reiselivsbedrifter. Bedriftene har begrensede ressurser, operere gjerne i ulike marked med ulike kundegrupper og ulike forventinger til hva Visit Ål skal levere av tjenester og oppgaver. Et samlet reiseliv vil ikke bare bidra med økt tyngde opp mot lokale myndigheter, men også bidra til en bedre kundeopplevelse i destinasjonen. Et samlet ... -
Human dimensions of whale-watching - What it means to people to see whales in the wild?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)Globally, and, in Northern Norway, whale-watching is growing rapidly. In Norway, the growth can be partially explained by the increased number of whales near the coast. Furthermore, the popularity of nature and nature-based experiences has been reflected in increasing demand for such experiences by tourists coupled with an increasing emphasis being placed on the value of animals in the wild as opposed ... -
An investigation of how specific social backgrounds shape the characteristics of young Chinese travel bloggers within the mobilities paradigm
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-12)Using the mobilities paradigm, this thesis aims to try to explain the uniqueness of a certain group of young Chinese travel bloggers, who were also tourists. It considered that the characteristics of young Chinese travel bloggers, both in their motivations and behaviours, do not appear in the realm of tourism only. This thesis explores where their characteristics come from and how to interpret them ... -
Global Sustainable Strategies in the Local Tourism Industry A study of how to implement sustainable tourism strategies
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-16)This master thesis in Tourism Studies is about gaining a further understanding of sustainable tourism and implementing sustainable strategies in tourism businesses for a common political region, such as Nordhordland, the first UNESCO MAB reserve in Norway. The region is used as a political district for delimiting the research. The study's primary purpose is to improve the understanding of sustainable ...
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