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2012-05-03

Högskolan Dalarna at Swedish International Travel and Tourism Trade Fair

Since several years students from Dalarna University, Linné University in Kalmar and Karlstad University have worked as hosts and hostesses at the International Travel and Tourism Trade Fair in Gothenburg. That was the case this year as well&...

2012-04-10

Albina on a field trip to northern Russia

Albina Pashkevich went on her second field trip to Nenets Autonomous okrug, Northwest Russia between 23-29 March. On this trip, Albina achieved several goals. The discussions concerning the present and future development of the tourism sector in Nenet...

2012-03-20

Several researchers at one of the biggest international geograpy conferences

Several researchers from Tourism Studies and Human Geography were present at one of the world's largest geographic conferences Associasion of American Geographers in New York February 23d to 28th. This year the the conference reached a new record with ...

2012-03-19

Guest lecture 9th of March

On Friday the 9th of March 10.00, Ioanna Farsari gave an guest lecture on Sustainable tourism: past and emerging approaches at Dalarna University in Borlänge. Tourism students and teachers listened to and appreciated the lecture. Ioanna Farsari.

2012-03-15

Högskolan Dalarna attended ITB The World’s Leading Travel and Trade Show

Between March 7-11 2012 Helén Holmquist and four students from International Tourism Management and Tourism Destination Development attended the ITB in Berlin to recruit students. The fair has more than 10 000 exhibitors from all over the world a...

2012-02-21

Tourism studies met the tourism and hospitality industry

During the Tourism Studies open house in the end of last week, the research conducted in Borlänge were presented. About 50 companies in the tourism and hospitality industry came to meet with researchers. The pleasant and very positive atmosphere may b...

2012-02-08

Tourism Studies started a mentor program

Tourism Studies have recently started a mentor program. Students in the tourism programs have the opportunity to discuss and reflect together with a mentor. Obviously, this is a huge opportunity for students to establish contacts within the region's to...

2012-02-08

Dalarna University is investing in education in Sälen

Within SkiStar Sälen there are approximately 900 seasonal employees during the winter and they work on average 2.7 seasons. In the whole Sälen Mountains area there is approximately 2 000 seasonal employees. Many ambitious employees leave after just o...

2011-12-20

Albina presented her research on International Tourism Forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia

The results of the first international tourism forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia “Development of tourism in Northern territories”  in the end of May, 2011 are made public at the their website (unfortunately all of the information  on the web-site ...

2011-12-19

New social justice partnership with University of the West of Scotland

Dalarna University has recently become partners with the University of the West of Scotland in an advocacy campaign focused on social justice issues and environmental sustainability. The Non-Governmental Organization called ‘Academics for a Better Worl...

2011-12-19

Karla Boluk on Erasmus exchange in Bournemouth

Karla Boluk, a Senior Lecturer in the Human Geography Department recently returned from an Erasmus exchange visiting Bournemouth University and Cardiff Metropolitan in Wales in the UK. Dalarna University has an established relationship with Bournemouth...

2011-11-28

Students were invited to Mora and Orsa November 25th

Mora and Orsa need more competent and committed people and welcomed students to visit some of their most successful companies.  Excited students at Orsa bear park. Photo: Linnéa Hassis. Both Orsa Grönklitt and Ostnor wants to get in touch with s...

2011-11-28

Retail research in the news

The retail research at Högskolan Dalarna got a lot of attention in the local news 15th and 16th of November. Professor Magnus Bohlin and  Dr. Johan Håkansson has led a research project, where the opportunities to establish cross-border shoppin...

2011-11-08

Albina Pashkevich on a field trip to Russia

Albina Pashkevich, senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, recently came back from her field trip to the town of Naryan-Mar (Nenets Autonomous Okrug), located north of the Arctic Circle in the European part of Russia (21,296 inhabitants)....

2011-10-27

An inspiring seminar by Robert Pettersson, ETOUR

Robert Pettersson’s presentation on ‘Tracking visitor via GPS’ attracted well over 20 visitors. An inspiring presentation was followed by numerous questions from the audience and a lively discussion. PhD-student Anders Gunnervall ETOUR assisted Robert ...

2011-10-27

Guests from ETOUR (MidSweden University) on a two day visit in Borlänge

Guests from ETOUR, MidSweden University visited us for two days. First day was spent on discussions around our educational programs with the purpose of benchmarking our course contents. Possible future collaboration at master’s and research levels were...

2011-10-22

ITM students visiting tourism businesses in Dalarna

On October 12th, a group of 44 students on the course Economic Geography of Nordic Tourism on the ITM programme and two lecturers vistied the activity businesses Romme Alpin, outside Borlänge and Lugnet Arena, in Falun. In 25 years Romme Alpi...

2011-10-17

New publication in Human Geography and Tourism

Maria Thulemark’s article “A new life in the mountains: changing lifestyles among in-migrants to Wanaka, New Zealand” is now published in Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia and Latin America as one article out of three in the second special issue o...

2011-10-14

Master students visted Malung-Sälen

Last Thursday 16 students and lecturers from Tourism Studies were invited to the mountain tourism destination Sälen. The invitation came from SITE Destination which is an Interreg project aiming at making the southern mountain range in Sweden and Norwa...

2011-10-03

Conference participation

PhD. Susanna Heldt-Cassel and PhD. Albina Pashkevich recently participated at the 20th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research that were held in Rovaniemi, University of Lapland between 21-24 September 2011. They joined the session ...

2011-09-08

Students from International Tourism Management participate in a visit from China

Three students from Högskolan Dalarna and International Tourism Management programme are participating and acting as hostesses, guides and interpreters during the visit from China. Borlänge Municipality has for more than ten years a collaboration ...

2011-09-08

Scott Cohen and Tara Duncan visited Borlänge

Dr Scott Cohen from Bournemouth University and Dr Tara Duncan from University of Otago visited Tourism Studies at Dalarna University last week. They gave lectures, worked on their book about Lifestyle Mobilities, co-edited with Maria Thulemark, and mad...

2011-09-07

Participation in the Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG

Peter Möller took part in the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of Brittish Geographers (RGS-IBG) that was held in London 30 August - 2 September. On September 1st Peter presented his current research ab...

2011-07-28

Peace & Love presentation in Almedalen

Results from 2010 Peace & Love festival was presented at a seminar in Almedalen, Gotland under the heading “ The importance of festivals for regional growth”.   In the picture: Tobias Heldt (second from left) during the panel discussion in ...

2011-07-28

Peace & Love research 2011

In a joint project with Borlänge municipality, Peace & Love AB and the University members of Tourism Studies did an extensive data collection to be able to answer questions on the Peace & Love festival’s economic impact in total and at the regi...

2011-06-17

Seminar about mountain tourism and regional development

Mija Thulemark and Atle Hauge (from Eastern Norway Research Institutet) held seminars in Sälen at June 10th. Their presentations related to tourism, migration and rural development in mountain tourism destinations.   The seminar was arranged...

2011-06-09

We are looking for a Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Human Geography/Tourism

Human Gography and Tourism Studies are are strongly interlinked at Dalarna University through common educational programs in tourism as well as through research within the fields of tourism and regional studies. Tourism  as a field of study is int...

2011-06-09

ITM student awarded winner at 24 hour

24 hour is an idea development competition sponsored by UNISKA. During 24 hours students from Sweden and Norway worked in teams to develop ideas around projects from the industry. During this year’s 24 hour session, organized by Lillehammer University,...

2011-06-07

Participation in International Tourism Forum in Russia

Albina Pashkevich took part in the International Tourism Forum that was held in Arkhangelsk, Russia between 25-28 May and which was organised by the Russian Federal Tourism Agency and Government of the Arkhangelsk Region. On May 25th Albina presented h...

2011-05-19

Arctic Futures first meeting

Susanna Heldt Cassel and Albina Pashkevich participated at the first program meeting for researchers within Arctic Futures, arranged by MISTRA in Abisko the 16th-18th of May. At the meeting the five projects that are financed by MISTRA during three y...

2011-05-09

Human Geographer receives a grant from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Albina Pashkevich has received  a research grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Foundation Hierta-Retzius for her participation at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle between 12-16 April. Albina to...

2011-05-05

Research collaboration with the tourism industry

During the winter season 10/11 focus group interviews has been carried out in one of Sweden’s largest winter destinations, Sälen. Mija Thulemark, Susanna Heldt-Cassel and their master student Christina Engström interviewed seasonal workers at one of t...

2011-04-29

Students participated in International Tourism Students Conference April 12-15 2011

The conference takes place every year within a network and the purpose of the conference is To establish exchange between students of different countries that are specialized in hotel management, tourism and leisure studies. This year’s theme was Cri...

2011-04-21

Happy Eastern

We would like to wish you all a happy Eastern. Glad Påsk!

2011-04-20

AAG conference Seattle

During the annual conference organized by Association of American Geographers Albina Pashkevich, Susanna Heldt Cassel and Maria Thulemark presented their ongoing reserch. This years meeting were helt during April 12-16 in Seattle, WA. Albina presented...

2011-04-11

RSA Tourism Conference

During March 30- April 1 a reserach conference organized by the tourism network within the Regional Studies Association at Etour Östersund. Anna Emmoth and Jörgen Elbe presented their work on regional strategic networks, Christina Engström and Mar...

2011-04-07

Exhibitors at TUR

Studnets and staff from our tourism programs participated in Scandinavias leading trade fair for tourism, travel and meetings. (www.tur.se) Dalarna University shared their exibition stall together with Linnéus Univerisy´s tourism educations. During th...

2011-03-25

Visit us at TURmässan March 24-27

From March 24-27 you will find representatives from our tourism programs at the annual exhibition "TURmässan" in Gothenburg. Dalarna University shares their exhibition stall with the tourism educations from Karlstad University and Linneaus University, ...

2011-03-25

Exhibitors at ITB Berlin

Last week three students and one teacher left Sweden to be exhibitors at ITB in Berlin. ITB is one of the world’s largest exhibitions for travel trade. It is an annual event where a large variety of companies and organizations show their work in the tr...

2011-03-24

”Austrian cluster” at Tourism Development Destination Program

For us the autumn term 2010 was a real “Austrian cluster” term. We had five Austrian students enrolled in the courses at the TDD. Two of the girls Theresa Valenta and Liesa Wessely were our ERASMUS students coming from MCI in Innsbruck. These girl...

2011-03-11

Research grant

Researchers in Human Geography and Tourism at Dalarna University has been awarded a research grant of 2.9 million Swedish kronor from Mistra (Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) in a newly established research program called Arctic Futures...

2011-03-07

Einsteig fair exhibitors

38 000 visitors came to the Einstieg fair in Hamburg between February 25-26 to look at the 337 exhibitors from universities, companies and organizations. Einstieg is a fair that provides exhibitors  from both Universities and companies, meaning i...

2011-02-25

New Erasmus partners in Northern Germany

Faculty of Tourism is actively involved in the process of internationalisation. Vice Head of the Department of Human Geography Albina Pashkevich and Student Administrator for ITM/TDD programmes Monica Eriksson visited two German Universities (EBC Hochs...

2011-02-24

Tourism Seminar

Anna Klerby and Tobias Heldt will present their work on "Peace and Love festival 2010 – facts and figures" in room 310 Friday 25th of February, 1 pm-2pm. For more information about our tourism seminars please see link to the left or contact Tobia...

2011-02-16

Pictures from the emigration fair

Högskolan Dalarna were represented by Helén Holmquist programme co-ordinator and Hans-Peter Gahleitner, student of the one year master program, Tourism Destination Development. The fair had around 10 000 visitors with Dutch citizens interested in...

2011-02-10

Participation in The 15th International Emigration Fair

During two days in February (12th-13th) Dalarna University participates as exhibitors together with The Regional cooperation council of Dalarna at the 15th International Emigration Fair in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This fair is visited by approximately...

2011-02-04

Focus InnoWent

Faculty of Tourism is one out of four profile areas that received granting to strengthen our relationships with the tourism industry and create strong networks in order to develop networks and innovative systems to strengthen a dynamic and a competitiv...

2010-12-28

Study visits

All students taking the course "Economic Geography of Nordic Tourism" were invited to visit tourism companies around Dalarna during December 21 and 22. First we visited Romme Alpin in Borlänge were the owner Bo Funke told the history of the compa...

2010-11-29

Last Friday was a day of celebration!

At the Friday of November 26 academic achievements was highlighted at the university. During the celebration a procession  of all academics that during the past two years has achieved an position as associate professors, professors ...

2010-11-26

The ambassador of Moldavia visited us

Albina Pashkevich and Karla Boluk participated in a meeting with the ambassador of Moldavia, Emil Druce, and Tatiana Molccean, Advisor Political and Economic Affairs. During this meeting Albina and Karla presented Högskolan Dalarnas tourism programs an...

2010-11-15

Former student told her story

Last week Faculty of Tourism arranged the first student/alumn event. During the first social gathering Marion Freitag, a former student at our master program in Tourism Destination Development, visited us and told her story about moving from Germany to...

2010-11-11

Event for students arranged by students

On the 7th of November Helén Holmquist and her Event Management students hosted an event for tourism students at Högskolan Dalarna at the students House in Borlänge. The students in the event class planned and staged the event, with the purpose to crea...

2010-11-11

Participation in ATLAS conference

Albina Pashkevich, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Human Geography/Touirsm, presented a paper at a recent ATLAS (Assosiation for Tourism and Leisure Education) conference “Mass vs. Niche tourism” that took place in Limassol, Cyprus between...

2010-11-01

Study visit to Great Copper Mine in Falun with research and management in focus

During the course “Managing and Interpreting Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites” students from the master program Tourism Destination Development visited the World Heritage of the Great Cooper Mountain in Falun. During their visit researchers Albina P...

2010-10-13

Senior lecturer is giving lectures in Beijing

Albina Pashkevich, senior lecturer in tourism/human geography is currently visiting the School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University in Pekin 4 October-15 October. Albina is taking part in the course organised collaboratively between...

2010-10-13

Faculty seminar

During Friday, October 8, Zuzana Macuchova presented her study on the spatial distribution of the retail sector in Sweden that she is co-writing with Johan Håkansson.  

2010-10-11

Research collaboration within the field of tourism and regional development

Susanna Heldt Cassel and Maria Thulemark participated in an Interreg meeting on October 7-8 in Karlstad. At this meeting the research project: “To make regional difference an advantage” were discussed together with researchers from Karlstad University,...

2010-09-30

New publication in tourism economics

Tobias Heldt’s new article on “Financing recreational infrastructure with micropayments and donations: A pilot study on Cross-country ski track preparations in Sweden” is now published in Scandinavian journal of hospitality and tourism – Special issue ...

2010-09-28

Researchers partcipated in a tourism conference

Magnus Bohlin, Daniel Brandt and Jörgen Elbe participated in The 19th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research on September 22-25 in Akureyri, Iceland. This symposium is an annual conference organized by the Nordic Society for Tourism and H...

2010-09-24

Faculty seminar

The Faculty of Tourism organizes a seminar for its staff and other guests every second Friday.This Friday Susanna Heldt-Cassel and Mija Thulemark presented two conferences that they recently visited.  Mija participated in Royal Geographical Assoc...

2010-09-21

Visit from New Zealand

Dr. Tara Duncan from University of Otago visited us at Dalarna University for a few days in September. During her visit she gave guest lectures in the field of tourism employees, sustainable tourism and methodology in tourism research.     ...