13.02.2023
The ITRC announces call for papers to the new peer reviewed tourism research Journal of Arctic Tourism (ArcTour). The journal is an online only, open access, free of charge forum for interdisciplinary discussions on tourism in the Arctic
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01.02.2023
The Icelandic Travel Industry Association and ITRC annually assign two awards in recognition of an outstanding dissertation on tourism produced by a student/students of an Icelandic university.
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26.01.2023
Johannes (Hans) Welling is a new member of the ITRC team, as a project manager and researcher. He will lead a grant application process for the Icelandic Research Fund and applications for other international research projects.
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16.01.2023
The ITRC is a participant in the Erasmus+ project Tourism Crisis Navigation, which has its goal to design and produce teaching material, in order to strengthen the resilience of the tourism industry in crisis.
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20.12.2022
Edita Tverijonaitė defended her doctoral thesis in Tourism Studies at the University of Iceland yesterday. Edita is the second doctoral student to graduate from the PhD-program of Tourism Studies from the University of Iceland.
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09.12.2022
Journal of Arctic Tourism is a new scholarly journal in the field of tourism, published by the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre.
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25.11.2022
ITRC recently joined a Nordic network aimed at improving tourism education in the Nordics: TourNord.
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08.11.2022
A virtual kick-off meeting was held today for a new Erasmus+ project, Women Leadership in Tourism, Leisure & Hospitality (We Lead)
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10.10.2022
Recently, a two-day project meeting was held in Hveragerði, in the Erasmus+ project Tourism Crisis Navigation. The ITRC participates in the project together with partners from Germany, Spain, Ireland, Denmark, Scotland and Ireland.
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03.10.2022
The Icelandic Coast Guard, the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network, and the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre have organised two breakout sessions at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2022 called "Responding to Booming Arctic Cruise: Safety and Environmental Risks at Sea" where key stakeholders will give their views and discuss the main challenges they face and fields of collaboration in this regard.
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