Avainsana: regenerative tourism

Julkaistu

Citizen science as a tool in regenerative tourism

Sara Kåll-Fröjdö
Maria Hofman-Bergholm
Lena Enlund

A hand with a mobile phone. There's an application open at the mobile phone, showing a map and a recording button.

We live in a rapidly changing world. Monitoring and inventorying the changes and implications of it tends to be quite resource intensive for research institutions.  A tool that is more frequently used for this kind of monitoring is citizen science, meaning community members contribute by gathering information through different kinds of activities. Citizen science is also often mentioned in the relatively new concept of regenerative tourism. So, what does citizen science mean and what could the potential use within the tourism sector be? In this article we explain the term briefly and explore several examples of citizen science online services and applications in Finland.

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Julkaistu

Towards regenerative tourism?

City view with a church tower.

Lena Enlund
Maria Hofman-Bergholm
Sara Kåll-Fröjdö

City view with a church tower.

During the last decades, different concepts of sustainable tourism have emerged. This article will discuss the different concepts briefly to try to find out where the focus is within the different concepts. Some of the concepts seem to focus on what happens in the nature where the tourist moves and on the ecological footprint, while others seem to focus on what happens in the tourist’s values and attitudes. 

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