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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...