Conferences
I have been fortunate to be able to attend 41 national and international conferences so far in my career. Here is a summary of my keynote presentations, conference presentations, and other attendances where I participated but did not present.
Keynote Presentations
'Rural Resilience Through Tenacious Tourism - Creative Tourism in Creative Outposts' CREATOUR 2nd International Conference, Braga, Portugal, June 2018
Full presentation available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ySon-KkOHDM
Conference Presentations
‘Klimatförändring i norra Sverige: turism-företagares syn på sårbarhet och anpassningsförmåga’ Friluftsforskning 2009, Östersund, Sweden, November 2009
'Nature-based tourism in the interior of Norrland: impacts and challenges' Nordic Rural Futures: Pressures and Possibilities, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2010
‘Post-inscription challenges: renegotiating World Heritage Management in the Laponia Area in Northern Sweden’ World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the global and the local, Quebec, Canada, June 2010
‘Climate Change in Northern Sweden: intra-regional vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies among winter-oriented tourism businesses’ International Polar Tourism Research Network II, Abisko, June 2010
‘Staying Power: The role of related experience and geographic proximity for survival in tourism’ Association of American Geographers, Seattle, USA, April 2011, also at the Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference, Athlone, Ireland, June 2011
‘A (ski) trip into the future: climate change, tourism and entrepreneurship in Polar Sweden in 2040’ 20th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research, Rovaniemi, Finland, September 2011
‘Kreativa utposter: om turismens bidrag till lokalsamhället’ Friluftsforskning 2011, Umeå, Sweden, November 2011
‘Creative Outposts: Tourism’s place in rural innovation’ Association of American Geographers, New York, USA, February 2012
‘Creative Outposts: local impacts of Arctic tourism innovation’ International Polar Tourism Research Network III, Nain, Canada, April 2012
‘Not seeing the forest for the trees: Post-productive places and hyper-productive spaces’ 2nd Nordic Conference on Rural Studies, Joensuu, Finland, May 2012
‘Evolutionary Economic Geography: a new path for tourism research?’ Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group PhD Colloquium, University of Surrey, UK, September 2012
‘Consuming Stories: Placing Food in the Arctic Tourism Experience’ 21st Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research, Umeå, Sweden, November 2012
‘Macro-level Hope and Micro-level Despair: Dynamics of survival in the restaurant sector in Northern Sweden’ Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, USA, April 2013
'Embedding Arctic Tourism Innovation in Creative Outposts' Canadian Association of Geographers, St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, August 2013
'Cascade Effect or Co-Evolution in Tourism in the Niagara Region?' Association of American Geographers, Tampa, USA, April 2014
'Heterogeneous Tourism Development Paths in Niagara, Canada' Canadian Association of Geographers, St. Catharines, Canada, May 2014
'Emerging Sustainable Tourism Development in the Arctic Gateway of Jokkmokk, Sweden?' International Polar Tourism Research Network IV, Christchurch & Akaroa, New Zealand, August 2014
'The End of Tourism as We Knew It? A Gibson-Graham Inspired View of the Tourism Economy' Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division, Toronto, Canada, October 2014
'The End of Tourism (as We Knew It)? A Gibson-Graham Lens for Alternate Tourism Economies' (co-presented with Suzanne de la Barre) Canadian Association of Geographers, Vancouver, Canada, June 2015
'Evolutionary Mechanisms in Sustainable Tourism Development: A Research Agenda' University of Johannesburg Leadership in Research Colloquium, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2015
'Exploring the Edges of Evolutionary Economic Geography' Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division, Ottawa, Canada, October 2015
'Co-evolution and Sustainable Tourism Development: From Old Institutional Inertia to New Institutional Imperatives in Niagara' Canadian Association of Geographers, Halifax, Canada, June 2016
'Managing Tourism for Sustainable Local Development in Jokkmokk, Sweden' International Polar Tourism Research Network V, Akureyri & Raufarhofn, Iceland, September 2016
'An Evolutionary Approach to Green Economy Transitions in Tourism' Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2017
Conference Participation
19th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research: Creative Destinations in a Changing World, Akureyri, Iceland, September 2010
Friluftsforskning 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2010
Jokkmokk Winter Conference, Jokkmokk, Sweden, January 2011
Rural Tourism Conference, British Columbia, Canada, April 2011
6th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2012
Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference, Galway, Ireland, June 2013
Celebrating and Enhancing the Tourism Knowledge-based Platform: A Tribute to Jafar Jafari, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 2013
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, USA, April 2015
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, USA, March 2016
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, USA, April 2017
Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2017
International Symposium on Society and Resource Managemant, Umea, Sweden, June 2017
Wine and Culinary Tourism Futures, Kelowna, Canada, October 2017
Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, London, United Kingdom, November 2017
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, USA, April 2018
6th International Polar Tourism Research Network Conference and Community Tour, Whitehorse/Dawson City, Canada, June 2018