TourNord – A Tourism Education & Research Network

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Projekttitel	TourNord – A Tourism Education & Research Network
Projekttype	Anvendt forskning og udvikling
Frascati	Ja
Tema	Bæredygtighed \| Business \| Turisme \| Undervisning
Teaser	TourNord’s goal is improving tourism education and research in the Nordic and Baltic countries
Status	Igangværende
Ejer
- Akademi	Erhvervsakademi Sydvest (EASV)
- Kontaktperson	Christian Dragin-Jensen Lektor og Forsker, PhD cdje@easv.dk 41991222
Nat./Int.	Internationalt
Projektperiode	01. maj 2020 - 31. oktober 2024
Projektbeskrivelse
- Projektresumé	TourNord’s goal is improving tourism education in the Nordics, inspired by the key recommendations of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ 2019 tourism policy analysis for the industry: Increase Nordic cooperation on sustainable development in tourism Digitalize to ‘Smart’ Nordic Destinations Encourage innovation to foster competitiveness and growth. With tourism playing a growing role in the Nordics, educators/students must gear themselves towards a new future in Nordic Tourism (NT). We aim to tackle these issues and apply them to higher education. The project is co-financed by Nordplus.
- Baggrund og formål	Our objectives are: SHORT-TERM: Network meetings, serving as a forum for exchanging best practices and experiences for educational and knowledge development within NT. Discover and implement innovative ways of teaching to benefit educators and students in preparing them for the current/future demands of NT. Promote & advance student/staff mobility among partners for learning, innovation and R&D activities within NT. LONG-TERM: Writing handbooks & articles on key themes within NT and education. Develop intensive short-term courses for partner institutions (and beyond), geared at NT. Expand network with educational institutions & tourism actors to further strengthen Nordic cooperation
- Aktiviteter og handling	TourNord is a network of higher educational institutions across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Lithuania, and Poland, focused on improving tourism education in the Nordics and Baltics. Our primary objective is hosting networking meetings which serve as a forum for exchanging best practices and experiences for educational and knowledge development within Nordic Tourism (NT). Our first meeting (Esbjerg, Denmark) focused on preparing students and educators in tourism with digital skills & competences and developing sustainable destinations. Our second meeting (Turku, Finland) focused on life-long learning and how educators can continuously update skills in tourism, what makes NT unique, and tourism lessons learned from remote locations. Our third meeting (Bergen, Norway) focused on innovative and resilient tourism, and how to prepare students for sustainable tourism. Our fourth meeting (Nuuk, Greenland) focused on the prospects and challenges of Arctic tourism. All meets had on-site field visits to learn of NT development, interests/needs of stakeholders, geographical contexts, language/cultural diversity, accessibility, urban/rural development, and how NT is adapting to a sustainability demands. We have two more upcoming meetings in 2024 in Randers, Denmark where the focus is on responsible & regenerative tourism. The second will be in Kalmar, Sweden, where the focus will be on nature-based tourism. TourNord hosts series of guest lectures across partner institutions for +250 tourism students, with the aim of highlighting the strengths and challenges of NT. These lectures are now standard practice at our institutions. TourNord are active in R&D, and through multiple projects produced valuable content within NT and education. We have published articles in leading journals in their field and produced content at a tourism-practitioner level. Recently, some of our work was presented at the Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research. We will also be launching a book on Nordic Coastal Tourism in 2024 with research and cases from every Nordic country. Dissemination exposure has been more than 50,000 unique visits on our website and LinkedIn page, and our activities have been covered by regional/national media. Our research has been implemented in several of our institutions and yielded great results to the benefit of students & educators, with focus on breaking down barriers between practice and classrooms.
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Deltagere
- Studerende
- Medarbejdere	Erhvervsakademi Sydvest (EASV) Christian Dragin-Jensen Mia Post-Lundgaard Trine Thomsen
- Virksomhedsrepræsentanter
- Andre
Partnere	Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland \| University of Turku \| Lithuania Business University of Applied Sciences \| University of Gdansk \| Koszalin University of Technology \| University of Greenland \| Icelandic Tourism Research Centre \| Erhvervsakademi Dania \| Western Norway University of Applied Sciences \| Linnaeus University \| TourNord \| University of the Faroe Islands
Finansiering
- Intern
- Ekstern	0% \| Øvrige ministerier og styrelser mv. \| Nordplus
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Formidlingsform
- Resultatets formidling	As there are many partners involved in the network (and we have been working together since 2020), it is not possible to list all the outcomes made in the period. Below you can find a selection from our 2022 report sent to Nordplus: Information and dissemination products: TourNord website LinkedIn page Selected Projects (can all be found on EAViden): Nordic Coastal Tourism – Sustainability, Trends, Practices, and Opportunities Event Innovation in Times of Uncertainty Employability: Bridging the gap between education and employment Locals & Hostmanship – a tourist’s quest for meaningful experiences Cooking Up Prosperity: Pop-Up Restaurants, Innovation, and Lifestyle Entrepreneurship Selected peer-review articles/book chapters: Effects of COVID-19 Infection Control Measures on the Festival and Event Sector in Poland and Norway Event Innovation in Times of Uncertainty Building a resilient sector in times of uncertainty Relational Food Festivals: Building Space for Multidimensional Collaboration Among Food Producers Can Norway become a net-zero economy under scenarios of tourism growth? Determinants of tourists' length of stay Collaborative Problem Solving: A pedagogy for workplace relevance Selected Books & Reports: Residents and Tourists: A symbiotic partnership Nordic Coastal Tourism: Sustainability, Trends, Practices and Opportunities (available 2024) Selected opinion pieces: Arctic Tourism – some lessons for the Greenlandic South Lifelong learning in tourism and hospitality: Questions of inclusion Overtourism, Pandemic and Nordic Tourism Just Governance: The Pathway to Destination Social Sustainability Tourism and the Digital Jungle Teaching/learning materials (guest lectures for students and/or educators): How to ‘fix’ travel: Lessons from COVID-19 and towards the green transition The Instagrammable Hotel Regenerative tourism – what is it, and why is it important? Work-based learning: Lessons from food waste workshops in the service sector in Denmark and Finland Event Innovation in times of Uncertainty Locals & Hostmanship: How to go ‘Localthentic’ Destination Branding: Overcoming negative images A digital toolbox for the tourism industry Understanding collaboration and sustainable tourism development Presentation at the 2023 EUROCHRIE Conference – The Hospitality & Tourism Educators Presentation at the 2022 Nordic Symposium of Hospitality and Tourism Conference Selected Erasmus+ staff exchange agreements signed: Most recently: University of Gdansk and Business Academy Southwest. Team members will travel to Gdansk in spring 2024. Business Academy Southwest also visited Lithuania Business University of Applied Sciences in 2022 to provide lectures/workshops, focusing on TourNord projects.
- Resultaternes værdi	TourNord’s impact on our institutions has been extremely positive. Network meetings were critical in exchanging best practices, learn about Nordic Tourism from other cultures/countries/institutions, and to foster closer cooperation. We have deepened our ties, reflected in our successful continuation of guest lectures, of particular benefit to our students. Moreover, supporting each other’s PhD students, conducting Erasmus+ staff exchange, and expanding our network, is a testament to our solid foundation. TourNord is now represented by 11 partners in 9 countries TourNord made it possible to collaborate on numerous successful R&D projects, as well as to further pursue new projects/funding. We would like to highlight the project about Nordic Coastal Tourism. This was the brainchild of TourNord and would not have happened without the network meetings. This book will be of great value to Nordic higher education institution (and beyond) teaching tourism/hospitality. The editors have taken great care in selecting authors from across the Nordics to ensure the diversity of nature, opportunities and issues of our countries are present. Dissemination activities have been extensive, within and outside academia, ensuring our impact goes beyond our own institutions.
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