Hållbar destinationsutveckling

Studier inom projektet
Marije Poort studerar hur innovationer kan skapa hållbara turistmål på Gotland. Mer om Marijes forskning.
Fie Broker-Bulling utforskar hur naturbaserad turism på landsbygden kan bidra till att öka en destinations hållbarhet. Mer om Fies forskning.
Gurbet Peker forskar om hur hållbarhet berättas om och praktiseras på den gotländska landsbygden. Mer om Gurbets forskning.
Om projektet
The graduate project in Sustainable Destination Development is focused on investigating how the development of a destination can contribute to increased sustainable development. The project will deviate from previous research by widening the scope of tourism development to increase the understanding of how the development of this sector can strengthen the sustainability of regions as a whole.
The project will examine three areas of Sustainable Destination Development; tourism, cultural heritage, entrepreneurship. We will explore how these areas are designed, negotiated and practiced and how they work towards a more sustainable future within and outside of the tourism industry.
Marije Poort
The aim of my PhD research is to understand how innovation can foster sustainable destination development on Gotland, by rethinking the understanding of innovation and simultaneously fostering it. I do this by placing my research in current narratives on regeneration and degrowth. I take on a transdisciplinary approach, which I translate into practice by setting up a co-creation Lab.
My goal is to (re-)create concepts and theory and to develop sustainable innovations which can be practically implemented by tourism actors on Gotland.
Handledare
- Ulrika Persson-Fischier, Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa
- Doris Rusch, professor vid Institutionen för speldesign

Gurbet Peker
My PhD project focuses on how sustainability is narrated and practiced in the everyday life on the Gotlandic countryside. The project touches on the interplay between tourism, cultural heritage and islandness.
My research interests also include human-nonhuman relationships, identity and belonging, urban and rural relationships, migration and materiality.
Om Gurbet
My name is Gurbet Peker and I´m a PhD candidate in Ethnology, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology and one of three PhD candidates within the Sustainable Destination Development project.
Handledare
- Camilla Asplund Ingemark, Institutionen för kulturentropologi och etnologi
- Fredrik Nilsson, professor, Fakulteten för human- och samhällsvetenskap, Kultur, historia och filosofi (Åbo Akademi)

