Tourism@WUR brings together a variety of academic researchers and PhD candidates from different disciplines and fields at Wageningen University who are engaged in the study of tourism.
VISION and SCOPE
Tourism mirrors many complex dynamics of our contemporary societies. This research cluster therefore not only sees tourism itself as a constitutive force in economic, cultural, social, political, technological and environmental processes, but also as an important lens through which to examine global concerns and transformations more broadly. Wageningen tourism scholars focus their attention on tourism’s relation to landscape, poverty, nature conservation, global environmental change, health(care), (sustainable) development, indigeneity, culture and agriculture, and critically engage with how tourism is executed.
Tourism@WUR aims to explore tourism from multiple theoretical perspectives and to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary debate for those who share common research interests. Through meetings, workshops, seminars and other such events, Tourism@WUR provides a platform for tourism scholars to meet, exchange ideas, and undertake new initiatives relevant to tourism studies at Wageningen University and beyond.
Contact persons:
| Rene van der Duim | Robert Fletcher |
| rene.vanderduim@wur.nl | robert.fletcher@wur.nl |
RESEARCHERS
WUR Faculty
Climate change, ecosystem services, agent-based modelling
Ecotourism; branding; conservation; Southern Africa
Motilities, health & wellbeing; Europe
Sustainable development, conservation, actor-network theory; Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, Netherlands
Dr. ir. Martijn Duineveld (GEO)
Mass tourism, Governance, Urban Studies, Power, Democracy
Ecotourism, adventure tourism, conservation; Latin America, East Africa
Human dimensions of natural resources, psychology; Netherlands, Global
Ecotourism, indigeneity, conservation; Southern Africa
Conservation tourism, environmental mobilities, governance; Polar Regions, East Africa, Indonesia, Caribbean
Mobilities, migration, health (care), the body, wellbeing, disability studies; Europe, South-east Asia
Mobilities, migration, leisure; Netherlands, Europe
Slum tourism; development, participation; Latin America
PhD Candidates
Conservation, development, competing claims; Uganda
Conservation finance, networks and flows, traceability in transnational organisations; Netherlands, Kenya
Marine tourism, livelihood, governance; Indonesia
Mobilities, fishing communities, political ecology; Southern Chile
Inclusive growth; Global
Marine community, cruise tourism, adaptation; Arctic, Caribbean
Innovation, actor-network theory; Netherlands
Innovation, practice theory; Netherlands
Climate change impacts, climate change adaptation, wildlife; Kenya
Climate change, ecosystem services, wildlife; Tanzania
Health, biopolitics, entrepreneurship; Netherlands
Voluntourism; Peru, Ecuador
Ecotourism, political ecology, neoliberalism; Bhutan
Conservation, development, landscape governance; Kenya
Conservation, development, sports hunting; Uganda
Conservation, development, conflict; Namibia, Kenya, Europe
Climate change, livelihoods; Zanzibar
climate vulnerability, companion modelling, agent-based modelling; Caribbean
