Welcome to 31th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research

The European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) at Mid Sweden University, will host the 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research on 19-21 Sep 2023.

The symposium is a research conference delivered under the umbrella of the Nordic Society for Tourism and Hospitality Research (NORTHORS). The symposium provides a platform for academic debate and development in the field of tourism and hospitality research in the Nordic countries and in a wider European and global context. NORTHORS is closely linked to the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, which a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor and Francis.

Symposium Theme    

On one hand, tourism continues to be an important sector as countries everywhere move quickly to recover from the economic challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, unmitigated and unmanaged tourism development brings real sustainability challenges for host communities, transport systems, and the global climate system.

Given these challenges, the symposium will be themed Rethinking Tourism for a Sustainable Future and provide a venue for critical examination of these topics. The conference also directly supports young scholars by offering a PhD course in advance of the conference (18 September 2023).