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. While the …
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Different Stories: Teaching Sámi Cultures in Tourism
Text and photos: Ella Björn Why learn about Sámi cultures? Indigenous cultures are critical to our planet’s cultural diversity. Over the years in Finland, tourism entrepreneurs have spread stereotypical and inaccurate information about Sámi cultures. Although exploitation in tourism has decreased in recent times and Sámi people have started their own businesses, the need to …
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Arctic Art and Design students’ visit in Hetta Text: Chau, Emmanuel, Gu, Yiling & Misia Video and images : Chau-Hsien Kuo We are a group of Arctic Art and Design students from the University of Lapland in Finland who travelled to Hetta, in north-west Finland, for the annual ice sculpting competition. The peace-themed competition was …
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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 …
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Welcome Dear arctic guest The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) is an international organization for cruise operators. Our organization’s main objective is to ensure that expedition cruises and tourism in the Arctic are carried out with the utmost consideration for the fragi...
How do I reach the kind of tourists I wish to attract? The launch of the online course is around the corner now, so here’s a little teaser for you! #Arctisen #OnlineCourse #LearnCulturalTourism #CulturalSensitivity #LocalCultures #IndigenousCultures #NPA
How do I innovate? Getting out of your comfort zone is never easy. Maybe these tips will help! If you want more ideas, then get ready for the launch of the online course soon! #Arctisen #OnlineCourse #LearnCulturalTourism #CulturalSensitivity #LocalCultures #IndigenousCultures #NPA
Eilís Quinn interviewed our project team members to her article "How not to promote Arctic tourism" and we recently heard that the article has been nominated as a finalist at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA). We congratulate Eilís and keep our thumbs up!![]()
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Eye on the Arctic has been named as a finalist at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA) in the Best Investigative Article or Series category, Media section, for its report How not to promote Arctic tourism, the awards organizers announced on their website. In How not to promote Arctic
