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Elina Nygård Jokkmokk, just north of the Arctic Circle, has always been an obvious meeting place for trade, gatherings, festivals and meetings between friends. This is the site of Ájtte, Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum, a gateway to the high mountains, to Laponia world heritage area and to the Sami culture. We tell the story of …
Throwback to our benchmarking trip to #Greenland – Kalaallit Nunaat a month ago, which started in Sisimiut.
We were warmly welcomed by various Greenlandic tourism entrepreneurs at Turisme Stormødet (Tourism summit). We learned about regional activities and community guidelines with Jesper Schrøder from Arctic Circle Business, and we were inspired by the diversity and quality of tourism initiatives such as Dogsledge Taxi. We also heard the stories of the #Sami reindeer herders Laila Inga from Inga Sami Siida, and Ailu Utsi from Davvi Siida, who gifted us with his joik several times during the trip. The next day Sanni Orasmaa took us on a outdoor adventure and invited us to tune in with nature (Soundbynature). Our visit in #Sisimiut ended with a spontaneous musical collaboration between Greenlandic DJing and traditional Sami song.
Filming and editing by Louise Romain
ARCTISEN's Christmas gift to is already here and it can be opened through this link: lauda.ulapland.fi/handle/10024/64069
Looking at Arctic tourism through the lens of cultural sensitivity:
ARCTISEN – a transnational baseline report
This transnational report approaches current tourism development in the Arctic through the lens of cultural sensitivity. What does cultural sensitivity mean? In which ways can Indigenous peoples and other local communities utilize their cultural heritage and contemporary life in creating successful tourism products and services? Based on a tourist survey and interviews among tourism actors, the report offers an overview and cross-national comparison across the project areas of Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway, and Sweden.
Who says that the safety videos on flights need to be boring? I guess that all of our benchmarkers watched this from the beginning til end. What a nice way of sharing insights of the culture, the scenery and landmarks!
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Air Greenland - Safety on board. Safety video
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Air Greenland safety video #airgreenland #safetyfilm #greenland #safetyvideo www.airgreenland.com greenlandin3minutes.com/During the last two days we had interesting discussions around cultural sensitivity and guidelines. Moreover, some of us visited Kittat, where traditional Greenlandic costumes are made.
With this last video, we want to thank everyone who was involved with our trip. Thank you for joining our discussions and excursions, sharing stories, and giving insights from their companies! Moreover, this trip offered us many opportunities for future collaborations, so we are looking forward to being in contact with you again. Thank you, we could not be happier. <3
Video credit to Sanni / Soundbynature
