Outi Kugapi
Author's posts
Mar 12
On Tourism Guidelines and Roadmaps in the Arctic
Text: Kjell O. Olsen & Outi Kugapi During the past year, different kinds of guidelines have been created to enhance sustainable and responsible tourism in the Arctic. ARCTISEN project has tracked down the existing guidelines, and gathered them to this map, designed by Suvi Autio. One of the originally planned activities in ARCTISEN project was …
Dec 22
ARCTIC TOURISM IN A PANDEMIC: LOSSES, GAINS AND SURPRISING OUTCOMES
Text: Elsbeth Bembom How has Covid–19 affected Arctic tourism and what challenges, trends and innovations are on the rise among local tourism entrepreneurs? During the last few weeks, Elsbeth Bembom from ARCTISEN has been talking to tourism experts from Greenland, Norway, Sweden and Finland to explore Arctic’s current tourism landscape. Corona-proof, behind her desk. …
Nov 18
ARCTISEN INVITES YOU TO A TEASER OF THE ONLINE COURSE!
Text: Emmanuel Tauch & Elsbeth Bembom After learning from and traveling together with tourism entrepreneurs and organizations across the Arctic, there was the big task ahead of the ARCTISEN-team to analyse and explore the massive amount of valuable data. Now, during this unusual winter of 2020, we are happy to announce that the launch of …
Jul 01
Authenticity as a compromise: why labels can be very important
Text and photos: Cecilia de Bernardi Since I started my work with Sámi tourism, initially I focused on analysing language, marketing, and specifically how culture is portrayed in pictures. The reason why I started with this is that marketing communication is an important aspect of the process of attracting tourists to a certain place. …
Oct 08
Story from Associated partner: Arctic Circle Business
Second blog post from our associated partner from Greenland, Arctic Circle business. Enjoy! *** Arctic Circle Business, partner in Arctisen – is a regional local business association with 66 businesses, located in Sisimiut, Greenland. The business council, which has 4 employees is aiming to ensure that our region is developing. Besides the function as a …
Oct 03
Hei from Finnish Lapland, Enontekiö and familyhotel Hetan Majatalo!
We are proud to start publishing posts from our associated partners, who are really important part of this project. First one comes from Finland, from Enontekiö, and Tiina will participate to our first benchmark-journey to Greenland later this year. Enjoy! *** I am Tiina Vuontisjärvi, the fourth generation at Hotel Hetan Majatalo. Enontekiö is …
