The seminars feature invited speakers as well as CETLER’s own researchers, presenting ongoing projects, new results, and emerging perspectives on sustainability, mobility, and visitor behaviour.
The seminars are generally held in English and open to anyone interested in tourism and regional development.
CETLER Autumn Seminar Series 2025
Transformations and Responsibility in the Visitor Economy – People, Places, and Ethics in Transition
How are our ways of travelling, working, and experiencing places changing as tourism, leisure, and society remain in constant motion? This autumn, researchers from various disciplines will gather to explore pressing questions around responsibility, ethics, and transformation in the visitor economy — from emotional labour in hospitality environments to the reshaping of alpine landscapes and sustainable governance of nature-based tourism.
You are warmly invited to join us this autumn for conversations about people, places, and ethics in motion.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
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22nd January |
Daniel Normark, lektor i Sociologi, HDa |
Recreation and Mobility |
| 5th February | Elena Pibernik PhD Candidate, Mid-Sweden university |
Collaborative Governance and Mobile Actors: What Is the Role of Visitors in Governing Multi-Use Landscapes? |
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13th March |
Dr Jaeyeon Choe | Grief Pilgrimage and Social Prescribing |
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17th April |
Elin Storman, Doctoral researcher Work Science will be having her Disputation |
Navigating Organisational Restructuring and Job Transitions: a Case Study of Workers in the Swedish Hotel Sector |
| 22nd April | RECAST Seminar | Theme: Innovation for Sustainability |
| 23rd April | Marcus Due, Tobias Heldt and Eric Lundberg, HDa | Bridging or Bonding? Civil Society Organisations and Second-Home Owners in Malung-Sälen and Älvdalen |
| 7th May |
Marketa Novotna, Ph.D. Masaryk University |
Ageing of the population and related challenges for health and social systems |
| 11th May | Nelli Heiskanen, University of Eastern Finland | The Whole Mountain. A Holistic Understanding of Retention Among Skilled Seasonal Tourism Professionals – Ski Instructors |
| 21st May | Ioanna Farsari (HDa) and Carlo Giunchi (university of Genoa, Italy) | "We Live in Dangerous Times”: A Metagovernance analysis of Entangled Tourism–Climate Change–Security Discourses in a Railway Project in Dalarna |
| 15th June | Claire Papaix Senior lecturer and business owner (wellness center in South West of France, called: La Vie des Cimes). |
Behavioural Economics insights for (rural) mobility and wellbeing appraisal |
| Date | Presenter | Title |
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25 September |
Eleonora Rossi, HDa | Feeling Seen: Emotional Labour and Visibility in Hospitality Spaces |
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6 November |
Alice Bassanesi, University of Bergamo | From Abandoned Slopes to New Opportunities: Alpine Leisure Transformation |
| 14 November | Jana Brehmer, HDa Licentiate Seminar |
Understanding, Assessing and Conceptualising Visitor Compliance under Open Access. The case of Trail Pass Systems for Cross-Country Skiing in Sweden |
| 20 November | Maria Thulemark, HDa | Good research practice, research ethics and ethical approval – how do we think and how do we do |
| 4 December | Alessandra Ghisalberti, Stefano Morosini and Elisa Consolandi, University of Bergamo | Cross-Border Sustainable Mobility in Natural and Cultural Landscapes between Italy and Switzerland: The Valle Intelvi – Mendrisiotto Trail Network |
| 18 December |
Jonatan Andersson, HDa
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Economic impacts of the metro: evidence from 1950s |
Seminar language: generally held in English
| Date | Presenter | Title |
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| 7 March | Marie Nowak, HDa | PhD Defense: Pro-Sustainable Consumer Behaviour in Tourism and Hospitality: Drivers, Barriers, and Effective Behavioural Intervention Design |
| 27 March | Zlatana Knezevic, HDa | Youth’s perspective on climate change and the intersection of tourism, internationalization and sustainable social work |
| 10 April | Tobias Heldt, HDa | Using multiple data sources to assess visitor compliance with a funding model for an open access tourism product |
| 24 April | Jonathan Leer, Grythyttan – Örebro University | Masculinities, food and sustainability |
| 6 May | Mini-symposium See separate program |
Community engagement, nudging and intervention design towards more responsible nature-based tourism and outdoor recreation |
| 16 May | Beatrice Waleghwa, HDa | PhD Defense: From peripheral challenges to core solutions: Exploring sustainable mobility in rural tourism |
| 22 May | Cenk Demiroglu, Umeå Uni. | Skiing into the climate crisis |
| 5 June | All | Evaluating the semester and discussing the seminar program for Fall 2025 |
Seminar language: generally held in English
Community engagement, nudging and intervention design towards more responsible nature based tourism and outdoor recreation May 6th, Campus Borlänge
| Time | Presenter | Title |
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| 13.15 | Tobias Heldt, HDa | Welcome and intro |
| 13.20 | Prof. Kate Dashper and Dr Jason King, Leeds Beckett University | Responsible outdoor recreation on nature reserves: The challenges of balancing conservation and public access |
| 13.45 | Jana Brehmer, HDa | Understanding Visitor Compliance with funding models of open access tourism products |
| 14.00 | Jonathan Yachin, HDa | Nudge plus in tourism: reflexive behaviours and reflective attitudes |
| – | Short break | |
| 14.25 | Tobias Heldt, HDa | Funding recreational trails via donations: Norm-nudges and frequency of framing messages |
| 14.40 | Joint discussion |
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| Date | Presenter | Title |
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| 10 October | Tara Duncan, HDa | Mobilities at work? A conversation about intersectionality, mobilities and tourism ‘work’ |
| 24 October | Nam Dang (external) | Shifting from 'I Have to' to 'I Want to': The Important Role of Forest Bathing in Nature Exposure |
| 7 November | Danielle Drozdewski, Stockholm University | Doing qualitative data collection digitally with QualNotes |
| 21 November | Jana Brehmer, HDa | Understanding visitor compliance to funding models of open access tourism products |
| 26 November | Beatrice Waleghwa, HDa | Final Seminar: From Peripheral Challenges to Core Solutions: Envisioning Sustainable Mobility in Rural Tourism |
| 5 December | Marcus Due, HDa | Joint TICS and CeTLeR Seminar: Co-creation and Sustainable Mobility: Lessons from the SITE-Region |
| 19 December | Tobias Heldt, HDa | KK-Synergy application + wrap up of the semester |
| 16 January | TBC | First slot Spring 25 - TBC |
Seminar language: generally held in English
