The Icelandic Tourism Research Centre (ITRC) is a partner in a new European collaborative project about the influences of pop culture on tourism and the opportunities that can be harnessed.

Nordic Food in Tourism is a project supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers, and it is set for three years, from 2019-2021. ITRC, participates in the project’s expert group.

Call for session proposals is now open for the 29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research 22-24 September 2020, University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Last Thursday RMF received a good visit from three employees from Region Västerbotten in Sweden, who were in Iceland to study the development of tourism here.

Ellen Hadderingh, MS student at Wageningen University, will for the next four months, do her internship at the ITRC's Akureyri office

This summer, the ITRC will continue data collection of travel behaviour and expenditure of foreign tourists in Iceland

Last week, Íris Hrund Halldórsdóttir, researcher at the ITRC and adjunct at University of Iceland, joint forces with other Icelandic Tourism Researchers at the eight Nordic Geographers Meeting in Trondheim.

A new book on labour issues in the tourism industry in the Nordic countries will be published 2020. The book is an initiative of the tourism workforce research group hosted by ITRC.

To tackle the issues of seasonality of tourism in Arctic Europe, we need to address community perspectives and employment issues, and to care for the environment.

Guðrún Þóra Gunnarsdóttir recently chaired a session on Island Tourism at The 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road: Islands Economic Cooperation Forum; a regular session related to the annual Boao Forum for Asia (BFA).