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Among the research methods and methodologies we develop and advance are tourism co-design, participatory inquiry, go-alongs in a variety of forms, and netnography.

We explore and advance understandings of engagements with nature. We dig into how engaging with nature can positively affect wellbeing and healthy ageing, accentuating evanescent versions of individuals’ subjective being and objective health through the embeddedness of physical mobilities, emotional geographies and therapeutic landscapes.

Festivals and events are examined as tourism attractions, stakeholder constellation, volunteering and engagement opportunities and business innovations.

We experiment with and set new standards for tourism higher education. We have developed the field of Tourism Co-design and Participatory Inquiry where students and teachers are engaged in collaborative learning efforts with others in a range of environments.

We have developed an award-winning, tourism innovation learning platform INNOTOUR.   

Innovation resources are not restricted and should not be restricted to local and close networks. We experiment with open innovation together with businesses, academics, students and other stakeholders. We have developed an award-winning, open tourism innovation platform INNOTOUR.

Tourism is often at the core of protecting natural areas from the commercial use of nature. We explore how humans value nature, a few of which UNESCO classify as ‘Outstanding Universal Value’, related notions of sustainability and stewardship. 

Rural tourism and gastronomy represent arenas of resilience, community interactions, and zones of sustainable tourism practice.

We critically examine existing techniques and collaboratively develop new methodologies of tourist experience design. These can facilitate the creative process for developing engaging, accessible and inclusive tourism products that may result in multisensory and transformative tourist experiences. 

ISOSCAN stands for "Isotope-aided assessment and forecasting of hydroclimatic extremes in Scandinavia with stakeholder co-design". TIC researchers will develop a scalable, effective citizen science framework co-designed with recreational nature users, including locals and tourists. They engage in snow collection (spatiotemporal isotopes) in data scarce regions in Scandinavia. Their samples will help realise the ambitious aim of ISOSCAN, which is to advance forecasts of hydroclimatic extremes across Scandinavia from novel water resource assessment and model constraints, using new water isotope data from non-traditional sources, co-designed with citizen scientists and stakeholders. ISOSCAN is an interdisciplinary research project funded in the Water4All funding scheme by funds from the European Union, Research Council of Norway, Innovation Fund Denmark and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.
 
Learn more about the project here.