At the forefront of tourism knowledge creation
Roskilde University’s Centre for Tourism Research (CfTR) carries out cutting edge interdisciplinary research of central relevance for both tourism practitioners and researchers.
CfTR develops knowledge about tourism and travel consumption, production, impacts and sustainability. The research centre is multi-disciplinary, and combines approaches from within Humanities, Social Sciences and Technical and Natural Sciences.
We carry out practitioner relevant research in close collaboration with public and private tourism businesses and organizations, as well as tourists and other relevant actors in the tourism system.
Members
CfTR counts a number of researchers with extensive experience within the various fields of tourism research.
The centre has a unique composition of researchers from different disciplines within the Departments of Social Sciences and Business, Humans and Technologies as well as Communication and Arts:
- Matias Thuen Jørgensen (Head of Centre, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business)
- Jane Widtfeldt Meged (Associate Professor, Department of People and Technology)
- Jens Friis Jensen (Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Arts)
- Lars Fuglsang (Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business)
- Jon Sundbo (Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business)
- Fuad Mehraliyev (Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business)
- Flemming Sørensen (Professor MSO, Department of Social Sciences and Business)
- Christine Revsbech Jensen (Postdoc., Department of People and Technology)
- Michael Haldrup (Professor MSO, Department of Communication and Arts)
- Jesper Holm (Associate Professor, Department of People and Technology)
- Jonas Larsen (Professor, Department of People and Technology)
- Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt (Professor, Department of People and Technology)
- Thomas Skou Grindsted (Associate Professor, Department of People and Technology)
- Niels Heine Kristensen (Professor, Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi)
- Jordi Vegas Macias (PhD Fellow, Department of Social Sciences and Business)
- Camilla Jensen (Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business)
Recent Publications
Research done by CfTR members is continuously published in international leading tourism journals and in other international outlets. Most recent publications include:
- Connecting fishing and tourism practices using digital tools: A case study of Marsaxlokk, Malta in Maritime Studies
- Micro-foundations of absorptive capacity in platform economy-based tour guiding companies in Tourism Management
- Navigating urban tourism planning in a late-pandemic world: The Copenhagen case in Cities
- Small encounters, big experiences – on the significance of tourists’ passing encounters with residents in Tourism and Hospitality Research
- Tourism and coastal & maritime cultural heritage: a dual relation, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
- Distribution Channels in Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing
- History, development and politics of China’s outbound tourism in Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour: An International Perspective
- Intermediary (online) in Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing
- Intermediary (traditional offline) in Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing
- Tourism in Encyclopaedia of Global Social Theory
- A coalition for ‘small tourism’ in a marginal place: Configuring a geo-social position in Journal of Rural Studies
- Brokers and Saboteurs: Actor Roles in Destination Innovation Network Development in Tourism Planning & Development
- Collective tourism social entrepreneurship: A means for community mobilization and social transformation in Annals of Tourism Research
- Existential Walking in Annals of Tourism Research
- Mobilising for the diffuse market-town hotel in Mobilising Place Management
- Sustainability approaches and nature tourism development in Annals of Tourism Research
- Chinese tourism in the Nordic Arctic: opportunities beyond the economic in Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
- Circular economy tourist practices in Current Issues in Tourism
CfTR research projects
CfTR takes part in numerous national and international research projects about tourism and related issues. This research is often carried out in close collaboration with the different stakeholders of the tourism system. Recent research projects include:
- Tourism Business Model Tool (TBMT)
- NorValue: Sustainable value chains in Nordic coastal communities
- SeNSE: Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism through Tourism Social Entrepreneurship
- TCCE: Tourism’s Contribution to a Circular Economy
- Economics and ethics of a sustainable passenger mass policy
- BASE: Biodiversity Assessment in Social Entrepreneurial Decision Making in Tourism. Case: The Royal Beach Camp
- Asian tourism as a contributor to sustainable community development – Positioning sustainability as attraction
- INVIO: Innovationsnetværk for Oplevelseserhverv
- Styrkelse af sammenhænge mellem Land & By
- Tourism in the Circular Economy
Resources
CfTR and its members make available various resources such as videos and tools. Below is a selection of these resources. Feel free to visit them.
- Webinar: Smart Tourism and Sustainability https://video.ruc.dk/media/t/0_a0tzjb3o
- Webinar: Sustainable Tourism Practice – Exploring Sustainability Transitions from a Practice Based Approach https://video.ruc.dk/media/t/0_yeyg2x8n
- Podcast: Chinese Outbound Tourism – Leisure or Political Tool https://tinyurl.com/e73b4e43
- Webinar: The second experience wave – experience economy and crises https://video.ruc.dk/media/t/0_4pgxa0tl
- Webinar: Stedfællesskab og det betydning for dansk turisme https://video.ruc.dk/media/t/0_7ucvowx7