Blar i forfatter "Heimtun, Bente"

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    • Communicating paradox: Uncertainty and the northern lights 

      Heimtun, Bente; Lovelock, Brent (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)
      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 ...

    • Communicating Paradox: Uncertainty and the Northern Lights 

      Heimtun, Bente; Lovelock, Brent; Morgan, Nigel (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 ...

    • The development of the northern lights tourism network 

      Heimtun, Bente; Haug, Bente (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-18)
      Drawing on actor-network theory (ANT), we traces the translations and ordering processes underlying the fastgrowing northern lights tourism network in northern Norway. It also shows how the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020, represented the most severe market shock. The results, following a multi-methods qualitative approach, unpack how this network emerged, accelerated and matured ...

    • Framing the land of the Northern Lights 

      White, Paul; Morgan, Nigel; Pritchard, Annette; Heimtun, Bente (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-10)
      The development of affinities between the production and consumption of people and place is crucial for tourism development. We trouble front and backstage distinctions to examine how destinations are framed and critically explore the power of the imaginary in shaping how individuals apprehend and in turn create social worlds. Combining critical discourse analysis with stakeholder interviews, we ...

    • Holidays with aging parents: pleasures, duties and constraints 

      Heimtun, Bente (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-13)
      I explore filial duty in the holidays from a feminist perspective through the lens of the experiences that Norwegian midlife single women have of how this duty shapes intergenerational holidays and singlehood. Data was collected through interviews, diaries and autoethnograpical reflections. Filial duty is embedded with the simultaneity of love and respect, and the women's needs and desire for agency ...

    • Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19? 

      Heimtun, Bente; Viken, Arvid Ingmar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-02)
      COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate ...

    • Rica som sesongarbeidsplass: en studie av motivasjon, arbeidsmiljø og livet utenom jobben 

      Heimtun, Bente (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2011)

    • Single women and holidaymaking 

      Heimtun, Bente (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      My interest in understanding female singlehood and holidaymaking started in 2001 when I, at the age of 37, for the first time travelled alone. During the one-week stay in a Turkish beach resort, I started to reflect on why I did not enjoy this holiday much, I felt lonely, self-conscious and vulnerable. At that time in my career, as an applied tourism researcher, I had never thought about notions ...

    • Withstanding winter vulnerabilities: A way of life in a northern seaside community 

      Heimtun, Bente; Jacobsen, Jens Kristian Steen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-25)
      This study responds to the dearth of qualitative research on long-term adaptation to winter climate-induced access and safety problems in rural areas in Western welfare societies. Based on qualitative interviews with 19 long-term residents in a thriving fishing village in northern Norway, the paper explores how they have adapted to and coped with roadside avalanches, blizzards, heavy snowfalls, and ...