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One of ITRC tasks is to disseminate information regarding tourism research in Iceland. On ITRC website there is a list of peer-reviewed tourism papers. The newly updated list is available here on the web under „About us“ – „Academic papers on tourism“ and also through link here below.

A new book, Asian Mobilities Consumption in a Changing Arctic, has just been published, both as a hardback and ebook.

Near 200 Nordic tourism and hospitality researchers are now attending the opening of the 29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism Hospitality Research, this year hosted as an e-conference by the ITRC‘s in Akureyri.

Unfortunately, the Covid-19 situation has become worse in Iceland as in many other countries. Due to that fact, the conference committee has decided to transform the conference to an e-conference altogether.

Today, May 20th, a photography exhibition titled The Arctic Biodiversity “Through the Lens” opened at Harpa, Reykjavík. The exhibition centres around the biodiversity of the Arctic and follows photo competitions by the same title from 2014 og 2018.

This spring, the ITRC is hosting a new intern Clay Appell, who is studying at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Call for papers is now open for the 29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research 22-23 September 2021, University of Akureyri, Iceland.

The ITRC will for the next couple of months host Alina Bavykina during her internship. Alina is a master student in Sustainable Destination Development at Uppsala University Campus Gotland.

Call for session proposals is now open for the 29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research 22-23 September 2021, University of Akureyri, Iceland.