PhD course focusing on tourism resources
Planning, development and management of tourism resources was on the agenda during a PhD course at ETOUR – a course with participants from Mid Sweden University as well as from other universities around Europe.
September 23-27, ETOUR hosted the PhD course Advances in Tourism-related resources. It is a course on tourism impacts, sustainable development and the planning, development and management of different types of environmental and social resources in tourism. The content of the course attracted ETOUR's own PhD students as well as more distant participants from universities in Italy, Spain and Denmark.
One of the participants was Parisa Setoodegan, PhD student at ETOUR.
– The guest speakers have had interesting topics to present and I can take something with me from each session and seminar, and also from the group activities.
The fact that the course attracted international participants was also something Parisa appreciated.
– I find courses that host international students from various countries particularly engaging. It is not just the course content itself that interests me, but also the interactions with diverse individuals from different universities, backgrounds, and areas of expertise.
Even the teachers in the course were from different countries. Besides Dimitri Ioannides and Peter Fredman, both researchers at ETOUR, Claudio Milano from the University of Barcelona, Arie Stoffelen from Leuven University in Belgium and Szilvia Gyimóthy from Copenhagen Business School also lectured.
After a week of lectures and seminars, the course ended with a field trip where the PhD students learned more about Östersund from a tourism resource perspective. Among other things, they heard about how Frösö Park went from being a military landscape to becoming more focused on outdoor recreation, and about the St. Olavsleden trail, which was brought up as a local example of a resource. Finally, they also got to hike on Andersön.
– The students now have a month to write their essays and then submit them at the end of October. Then each student has to review another student's work and based on the reviews, they submit a final paper at the end of November, says Dimitri Ioannides.
Read more about the course Advances in Tourism-related resources