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Bærekraftig cruiseturisme - Er en satsing på cruiseturisme forenelig med bærekraftig utvikling av Kirkenes som reisemål?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-11-01)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvorvidt en satsning på cruiseturisme kan være forenelig med reisemålet Kirkenes mål om bærekraftig utvikling. Med en økende interesse for bærekraftig turisme, både lokalt, nasjonalt og internasjonalt, er det avgjørende for reisemål som Kirkenes å utvikle en dypere forståelse av hvordan cruiseturisme påvirker deres posisjon i arbeidet som bærekraftig reisemål. ... -
Master's Thesis: Empowerment and Constraints of Slum Tourism in Ga Mashie Ghana
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-10-28)This Master's thesis explores the empowerment and constraints of slum tourism in Ga Mashie, Ghana. The study examines how slum tourism impacts local communities, focusing on whether it brings social, economic, and cultural empowerment or perpetuates existing challenges. Using qualitative methods, including interviews with community members, tour guides, and local authorities, the research investigates ... -
The Rise of the Asian Female Digital Nomad
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)This feminist thesis contributes to our understanding of tourist experiences by exploring the constraints and empowerment of Asian women digital nomads. It investigates the complexity and the diversity of Asian women digital nomads and elucidates the issues of gender and race in the women’s quests for a nomadic lifestyle. The empirical data were drawn from mixed method techniques of semi-structured ... -
THE YOUNG EYES ON DOG SLEDDING EVENTS – Themes that contribute to the event experiences of young dog mushers attending Finnmarksløpet 2024
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-08)This qualitative study aims to highlight the themes that contribute to the event experiences of young dog mushers attending dog-sled events. Finnmarksløpet, the longest dog-sledding race in Europe, serves as the focus event and underpins the theory of event experience with real-life examples. Dog mushing is a popular sport in the Arctic, especially in Norway. The associated community is very close-knit ... -
Laughing through the unknown: Implementing humor into guiding work by international students in Alta, Norway
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-14)There can be different views and opinions about what it takes to be a newcomer when travelling for educational or work purposes. Some people can find it fairly uncomfortable when faced with new social norms, languages, rules, and regulations; while others are eager to embrace all challenges and immerse themselves into the new environment. In some sense, I believe, it’s the kernel of exchange students’ ... -
Opplevelsesprodukter. En undersøkelse av hvorvidt opplevelsesprodukter blir bruk av nærområdet
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-11-15)I mars 2020 ble hele Norge snudd på hodet da koronapandemien slo ut og det ble satt i gang en rekke tiltak og nedstenging av landet. Dette førte til at reiselivsnæringen, nesten over natten, ble lagt øde. Alle kultur- og idrettsarrangement ble avlyst, 2 ukers karantene ved innreise til landet, barer, utesteder, og restauranter ble stengt. Titusener av reiser ble avlyst og hotellrom ble brukt til ... -
Culinary relationships in Tromsø, Norway: An exploratory food tourism study from the supply-side perspective
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)This master thesis research aimed to explore the relationship between local food producers and restaurants in Tromsø, Norway, and how this might impact the final food offering arriving at the tourist restaurant's table. The research is supported by a supply chain conceptual context, followed by a theoretical framework that includes relationship marketing theory and commitment and trust theory. The ... -
THE YEAR OF RETURN, 2019: Exploring Narratives of the African-American
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)ABSTRACT The Year of Return narratives offered the African-Americans more than just a typical tourism experience; it became a profound journey imbued with personal significance, fulfilling desires that conventional narratives could not satiate. This study analyzed the narratives of the African-Americans during their tourism experience in the Year of Return, 2019 Campaign. The study employed the ... -
ØKT FOKUS PÅ VERTSKAP HOS SESONGANSATTE - EN NØKKEL TIL FORBEDRET GJESTETILFREDSHET I REISELIVSBEDRIFTEN?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven ser på vertskap i reiselivsnæringen og faktorer som kan fremme vertskap blant sesongansatte. Gjennom anvendelse av et teoretisk rammeverk om vertskap, identifiseres fem faktorer som antas å aktivere vertskap blant sesongansatte. Gjennom kvalitative intervjuer ble informantene introdusert for faktorene, slik at deres perspektiver kunne belyse betydningen av faktorene i praksis. De ... -
How do tourist companies in Northern Norway utilize social media to attract tourists?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)The central research question guiding this thesis is: How do tourist companies in Northern Norway utilize social media to attract tourists? This study explores the strategies employed by tourism businesses to leverage social media in engaging potential tourists and increasing visitation to the region. To address this question, I conducted semi-structured interviews with social media managers and ... -
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 ...
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