Essays about: "summer tourism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the words summer tourism.

1. 1. On becoming an organic farmer2.14.0.0 : An autoethnographic reflection2.14.0.0

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

   Author : Cliona Jane Lyle Bredius; [2024]
   Keywords : WWOOF; sustainable tourism; Gotland; autoethnography; agriculture;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) network may constitute a form of sustainable tourism on the Baltic Island of Gotland, Sweden. To do this, I narrate my own personal journey as a WWOOF volunteer trying to find my way as an organic farmer, in an autoethnographic account of my experience at Tjeldervik Gård during the spring and summer of 2023. READ MORE

3. 2. A student’s belonging in the tourist town : A case study of university students’ place belonging and community in the tourist destination Visby, Gotland

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Eva Öberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Place belonging; Overtourism; University students; Visby; Second home ownership;

   Abstract : Tourism is a worldwide phenomenon and an important industry. In recent years, however, questions have arisen surrounding whether tourism can be harmful to destinations when exceeding their capacities. Visby is a medieval seaside town and a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Gotland, a Swedish island. READ MORE

4. 3. Nature Nexus - Small town sustainability in an island context

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Emily Axtell Himber; [2022]
   Keywords : Urban Design; Rural Design; Denmark; Nexø; Bornholm; Small Town Sustainability; Residential; Yderområde i Danmark; Yderkommuner; Sunshine Island; Solskinsøen; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : Despite its sandy beaches, lush forest, and many sunshine hours, Bornholm was placed on a list along with 23 other municipalities as a peripheral area by Erhvervsstyrelsen in 2014. This designation means that the municipality’s income per capita is less than 90 percent of the national average and over an hour away from a large city. READ MORE

5. 4. House of the Footbridge

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Klara Rubensson; [2022]
   Keywords : Arboga; medborgarhus; översvämning; naturspång;

   Abstract : BACKGROUNDThe new footbridge is located a short walk from the medieval city center in Arboga. The idea of a pedestrian overcrossing was a result of a group project during the fall semester; a solution that reactualizes the creek Arbogaån which lost its role as a vital social function for the industries when the canal was built in the 17th century. READ MORE

6. 5. Thinking with Ai Stratis : Becoming-Tourist, Becoming-Researcher in a More-Than-Human-World

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Byggteknik och byggd miljö

   Author : Paulina Raduchowska; [2022]
   Keywords : Ai Stratis; Agios Efstratios; island; tourism; research; becoming; affect; posthuman; multispecies; landscape; Deleuze; ethics of care; more-than-human; sustainability; futurity; assemblage; environmental humanities; ontological turn; guest; host;

   Abstract : This study discusses the difference between thinking with and about the island of Ai Stratis for knowledge production, advocating for situated research and embodied experience. Having conducted an ethnographic study, on the island of Ai Stratis in the North Aegean region of Greece in the summer of 2021, I look out from the island, assuming a tree-fold research field, including the physical island of Ai Stratis, a plane of reflexivity, as well as a literary plane. READ MORE