In the autumn of 2016, the ITRC organised the 5th conference of the International Polar Tourism Network. Recently published issue of the journal Resources, focuses on papers presented at the conference.

ITRC is hosting 13th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations in September in Reykjavik, Iceland. Registration is now open.

Dr. Auður H Ingólfsdóttir has joined the ITRC's team of researchers.

ITRC’s research on Icelandic TSA, conducted by Dr. Cristi Frent, was included and referenced in InRouTe’s June publication: Tourism, territory and sustainability: a statistical insight at subnational levels.

Recently Gyða Þórhallsdóttir, PhD student in tourism research at the University of Iceland published a paper on method to analyse seasonality in the distribution of tourists in Iceland.

The 13th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations will be held 29-30 September 2017 in Iceland. Call for papers is now open.

This week, the ITRC welcomed three researchers from the the University of Szeged in Hungary.

The Icelandic Seal Centre in co-operation with the Icelandic Research Centre (RMF) has formed an interdisciplinary research group on responsible tourism in the Arctic.

Recently Health & Place journal published an article on inter-discipinary research investigating the stress-buffering effects of walking in nature. The paper's leading author is Gunnthora Olafsdottir, PhD at the ITRC.

Recording of the ITRC's annual seminar is now available here on the ITRC's web.