Our students from the ITM-program recently visited TUR-mässan; the Swedish International Travel & Tourism Trade Fair in Gothenburg. The purpose was that the students would promote our programs and also get an insight in what actors are in...
During the summer 2013, our tourism department will hold a web-based course in tourism, focusing on the basics in destination development. Questions of what it is that makes a destination attractive and sustainable will be on the agenda. The students w...
Högskolan Dalarna participated at the world’s largest tourism fair, the ITB in Berlin during March 5-11 2013.
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Between 12-13 February 2013, Albina Pashkevich was invited as guest lecturer at the Arctic studies course in Kiruna. The course was arranged by the University of Applied Science, School of Hospitality Management in Rovaniemi, Finland. 22 Bachelor stude...
Edward H. Huijbens, director of the Tourism Research Center in Akureyri in Iceland, became the first guest lecturer in our tourism seminar series this spring semester. Edward talked about current research projects at the research center, monitoring the...
Last Friday, our tourism studies department held open house in Borlänge. The visitors, mainly from tourism and hospitality industry in Dalarna, got the opportunity to meet our researchers and students and to get insight on our current activities and pr...
On Friday February 8 our tourism department open the doors and hosts the annual open house. During the afternoon, visiting guests can learn more about our current research and get the opportunity to meet our staff and students. You will find us in the ...
Recently our Senior Lecturer Albina Pashkevich was invited as a guest lecturer at the Wageninge University, Environmental Policy group, Wageninge in Holland. The visit, which lasted between 30th January – 1:st February, was part of a close cooperation ...
Maria Thulemark, Peter Möller and Christina Engström recently visited Leeds, UK, where they participated in the international conference ”Active Countryside Tourism”. During the conference, they presented their paper “Vivid city or sleepy village”,&nbs...
The new year 2013 means new exciting activities in our tourism department. And we have already started by taking our TDD-students on a two-day field trip to Sälen, Idre and Trysil. The trip was arranged by SITE and Stanna i Dalarna and turned out to be...
We can proudly announce that one of our students; Tobias Sjövall have landed a trainee job at Visit Sweden in Amsterdam. Tobias, who’s currently into his third semester on the ITM-programme will take a break from his studies during the spring in order ...
Our department was recently honored with a visit from Sandro Carnicelli from the University of the West of Scotland. Sandro originally comes from Brazil and was awarded his PhD in the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2011. Today, Sandro lives and wo...
Albina Pashkevich participated in the seminar ‘Public-private partnership in the tourism development of Barents Region’ held in Arkhangelsk, Russia on 26 November. She participated in the round-table discussions concerning the lessons learned from the ...
Students at the course Event Management are now working on a social event for international students at Högskolan Dalarna. The event will take place December 13th and aims to create a nice environment for students at Högskolan Dalarna.
On the 14th November, students taking part in the course ‘Managing and interpreting cultural and natural sites’ had a chance to meet Christina Staberg – coordinator for the World Heritage Site in Falun. Christina described in great detail t...
A group of our TDD students studying ‘Management and interpretation of the cultural and natural heritage’ have recently been on a study trip to Falun together with their tutors - Albina Pashkevich and Magnus Bohlin. Main focus of this trip was explorin...
Researchers at the Tourism Faculty take part in the largest Nordic Tourism and Hospitality Symposium in Umeå between 8-11 November. The theme for this year’s conference is Developing tourism.
Five delegates from Dalarna University particip...
During two sunny days in October our ITM-students visited tourism companies and events in Dalarna. These visits were arranged as an assignment within the course “Economic geography of Nordic tourism”. During our first day we visited a downhill skiing d...
It is already my second year of travels to the capital of the Nenets Autonomous okrug – Naryan-Mar. I am continuing collecting information concerning the recent development in the tourism industry of this region, making interviews with the public autho...
Albina Pashkevich recently visited the University of Applied Science in Stralsund as part of her Erasmus exchange. Accompanying her was Susanne Corrigox – coordinator of International Affairs at Dalarna University. University of Applied Science, School...
This year’s mentorprogram for the tourism students has now started. Sponsored by the Focus Innowent project at Högskolan Dalarna, the program had its first get together for this academic year. The program aims to be a connection between the...
Professor Nigel Morgan from Cardiff School of Management: The Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, are visiting Dalarna University 19-21 September. Prof. Morgan’s research mainly concerns tourism, social justice and citizenship. He is also interested in ...
Albina Pashkevich, Senior Lecturer, faculty of Tourism visited our ERASMUS partners from Lillebaelt Academy of Professional Higher Education, Odense, Denmark. She also took part in the 2nd Conference on International Tourism organised by the School tog...
Magnus Bohlin has participated as Erasmus exchange guest lecturer at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain. The main theme of the lectures was the development of border trade in general and specifically the conditions to develop border ...
This year's graduation ceremony was organised in Galaxen with lots of activities, including presentations of Bachelor and Master theses and meetings with potential employers. The students were greeted by rector of the Dalarna University – Marita H...
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&...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We would like to wish you all a happy Eastern.
Glad Påsk!
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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