Nataliia Godis

Bakgrund

I am a doctoral student in Tourism studies. Before I started my PhD program here in Mid-Sweden, I have worked in hospitality for ten years in the role of a sommelier and briefly a guide. A good part of my work experience comes from two cruise companies.
I have a Bachelor and Magister in Sociology (Kyiv National Aviation university in Ukraine, my home country) and a Master in Service Management in Tourism (Lund University, Sweden).
I have traveled extensively for work and education and have lived for longer periods in Italy, Sweden and the USA. I hold a WSET award, level three, in wines and spirits.

Forskningsområden

~ forms of tourism: VFR, memory tourism, diaspora travel, wine and gastronomy, cruise tourism
~ agency: tourism workers, tourism knowledge
~ theoretical field: embodiment and senses

Forskning

My PhD project is titled ‘Tourism knowledge in-the-making: from lay people to experts.’
I am keen to study how tourism practitioners of varying competences and skill sets, including ordinary people whose lives are embedded in tourism, create knowledge-in-practice. I draw from embodiment and senses research to analyze dynamic processes in the action.
My fieldwork is planned with locals and practitioners in wine regions, and tourism workers on cruises.

Övrigt

Milinchuk, O., Godis, N. (forthcoming). Tourism Law in Ukraine. In C.Torres (Ed.), Tourism Law in Europe, 2nd vol. ESHTE Publications.

Godis, N., & Nilsson, J. H. (2018). Memory tourism in a contested landscape: exploring identity discourses in Lviv, Ukraine. Current Issues in Tourism, 21(15), 1690-1709.

Godis, N. (2016). Commentary: Global Ukrainians. Ambiguities and social capital. Baltic Worlds, vol. ix (1-2), 101-103.