
Tourism Business
Research group
Research group Tourism Business is part of Centre for Tourism Studies, which is the leading actor in tourism business Research in Finland. Our focus areas in research are: *wellbeing tourism and nature based tourism * sustainable and responsible tourism business * information technology and digitalization in Tourism*.
In our research, nature, and lakes and forests in particular, is understood as a resource and environment for nature based tourism experiences, which are co-created with customers and service providers, with an overall mission of economically, ecologically and socio-culturally sustainable activities, aiming to wellbeing of tourists and the society. We are concerned with understanding the creation, development and communication of customer value-based experiences in tourism destinations including networking and competitive stakeholders. The group pursues an understanding of customer value expectations among different tourist segments and an understanding of the management of these expectations. Some of the topics of our Research group, e.g. Social Tourism, are primarily interdisciplinary, striving from findings between disciplines.
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Group members - UEF
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Raija Komppula Professor , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Juho Pesonen Professor , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Olga Hannonen Postdoctoral Researcher , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Katja Pasanen Project Manager , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Jarno Suni Postdoctoral Researcher , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Elli Vento Early Stage Researcher , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Nelli Heiskanen University Teacher , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Elisa Sulkinoja Project Researcher , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Johanna Heinonen University Teacher
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Tuuli Pulkkinen Project Researcher , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
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Muhammad Khogali Project Researcher , Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
Others
Other group members
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Scott McCabe, professor Scott.McCabe@nottingham.ac.uk
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Jamie Murphy, adjunct professor jamie.perth@gmail.com
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Riina Iloranta, doctoral student
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Esko Sorakunnas, doctoral student
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Sini Kauhanen, doctoral student
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Xinxin Guo, doctoral student
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Jessie Chen, doctoral student
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Johanna Heinonen, docotral student
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Mercy Changa, doctoral student
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Hilkka Lassila, adjunct professor hilkka.lassila@savonia.fi
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Saila Saraniemi, adjunct professor saila.saraniemi@oulu.fi
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Juulia Räikkönen, adjunct professor juulia.raikkonen@utu.fi
Cooperation partners
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Karelian Wellness is a Karelia CBC Programme project funded by the European Union, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Finland.
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Centre for Tourism Studies at the Department of Economics of the University of Eastern Finland is involved in the Saimaa phenomenon, ie the joint effort of the four provinces of Eastern Finland to apply for the European Capital of Culture status for Savonlinna and the entire Saimaa region.