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).

Íris Hrund Halldórsdóttir and Magnfríður Júlíusdóttir received funding from the Immigration Development Fund for further research on the project "Terms and conditions of foreign workers in tourism".

The ITRC and Visit North Iceland signed a contract recently regarding a new research project on cultural tourism in North Iceland.

Last week, the ITRC was visited by Dr. Zsuzsanna Kövi, from Karoli Gaspar University in Hungary. In her visit, Dr. Kövi met with the ITRC‘s researchers, as well as professors, lecturers and cooperational parties of the ITRC.