Project results – reports
Looking at Arctic tourism through the lens of cultural sensitivity : ARCTISEN – a transnational baseline report
Authors: Kjell O. Olsen, Mette S. Abildgaard, Camilla Brattland, Daniela Chimirri, Cecilia De Bernardi, Johnny Edmonds, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, Chris E. Hurst, Emily Höckert, Kari Jæger, Outi Kugapi, R. Harvey Lemelin, Monika Lüthje, Nuccio Mazzullo, Dieter K. Müller, Carina Ren, Ritva Saari, Lateisha Ugwuegbula & Arvid Viken
Toward culturally sensitive tourism – Report from Greenland
Authors: Carina Ren, Daniela Chimirri & Mette S. Abildgaard
Cultural sensitivity and tourism – Report from Northern Norway
Authors: Camilla Brattland, Kari Jæger, Kjell Olsen, Elle Mari Dunfjell Oskal, Arvid Viken
Reflections on culturally sensitive tourism – The case of Sweden
Authors: Dieter K. Müller & Cecilia de Bernardi
Toward culturally sensitive tourism – Report from Finnish Lapland / Kohti kulttuurisensitiivistä matkailua: Suomen Lappi
Authors: Outi Kugapi, Emily Höckert, Monika Luthje, Nuccio Mazzullo & Ritva Saari
Existing Guidelines and Certificates for Culturally Sensitive Tourism in Canada
Authors: Chris E. Hurst, Lateisha Ugwuegbula, Bryan S.R. Grimwood & Harvey R. Lemelin
Articles in newspapers etc
How not to promote Arctic tourism. Why Finland’s Indigenous Sami say marketing their region needs to change. Article by Eilís Quinn in Eye on the Arctic.
Stereotypes have fueled a tourism boom in Europe’s icy North. Can things change? Article by Karen Gardiner in National Geographic.
Academic publications
Björn, E. & Lüthje, M. (in press). Envisioning posthumanist cultural tourism: Indigenous sociomaterial practices of teaching tourists about local cultures. In X. Matteucci & S. Moretti (eds.), The future of cultural tourism. Bristol: Channel View Publications. (Publication in April 2025.)
Hurst, C., Grimwood, S. R., Lemelin, R.H. & Stinson, M. J. (2020). Conceptualizing cultural sensitivity in tourism: a systematic literature review. Tourism Recreation Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2020.1816362
Kugapi, O., & Höckert, E. (2020). Affective entanglements with travelling mittens. Tourism Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2020.1801824
Lüthje, M. (2023). Kulttuurisensitiivisyyden paikalliset käytännöt matkailuliiketoiminnassa [Local practices of cultural sensitivity in tourism business]. In S. Veijola (ed.), Matkailunkestävä Suomi? Vastuullinen suunnittelu kulttuuri- ja luontoympäristöissä [Tourism planning for future: Responsible planning in culture-nature environments in Finland] (pp. 275−312). Tietolipas 283. Helsinki: The Finnish Literature Society SKS.
Lüthje, M., Höckert, E. & Kugapi, O. (2024). Pathways to culturally sensitive tourism policies and practices. In R. Butler & A. Carr (eds.), The Routledge handbook of tourism and Indigenous peoples (pp. 327−339). London: Routledge.
Ren, C. (2024). “Are we not all Indigenous?” Negotiating Indigeneity in Greenladic tourism. In R. Butler & A. Carr (eds.), The Routledge handbook of tourism and Indigenous peoples (pp. 11−19). London: Routledge.
Ren, C., Jóhannesson, G.T., Kramvig, B., Pashkevich, A. & Höckert, E. (2020). 20 years of research on Arctic and Indigenous cultures in Nordic tourism: a review and future research agenda. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2020.1830433
Saari, R., Höckert, E., Lüthje, M., Kugapi, O., & Mazzullo, N. (2020). Cultural sensitivity in Sámi tourism: A systematic literature review in the Finnish context. Matkailututkimus, 16(1), 93-110. https://doi.org/10.33351/mt.88061
Viken, A. (2024). Tourism appropriation. “Taking” land and culture in Sámi areas.In R. Butler & A. Carr (eds.), The Routledge handbook of tourism and Indigenous peoples (pp. 250−262). London: Routledge.
