Vilhelmiina Vainikka

Dr Vil­helmi­ina Vainikka

Vilhelmiina Vainikka

Vil­helmi­ina Vain­ikka is a post-doc­tor­al research fel­low at Tampere Uni­ver­sity, Fin­land. She is work­ing on the HUMANE-CLIMATE pro­ject (2022 – 2026), “The civic poten­tial of cli­mate mobil­ity”, which is fun­ded by the Academy of Finland.

Prof Soile Veijola on tourism studies, overtourism, the present, and the future

February 13, 2024
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Professor Soile Veijola. Photo by Kaisa Sirén.

For all its diverse onto­lo­gies and epi­stem­o­lo­gies, tour­ism aca­demia and research have not influ­enced industry prac­tice as much as it could have, accord­ing to Soile Vei­jola. That puts her hopes of an ‘eth­ic­al turn’ in tour­ism at risk and has her wor­ried about the future of the phe­nomen­on. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.

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What is ‘mass tourism’? And what’s the problem?

October 17, 2023

What is 'mass tourism'? Is it "human pollution" as this graffiti asserts? Image by Mark de Jong (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/FZ8ZEeL0l8g

What is ‘mass tour­ism’? How do we think about it and talk about it? Do we con­sider all of its con­texts, costs, and bene­fits? Does mass tour­ism con­trib­ute to good lives? Or do ‘the masses’ only rep­res­ent threat? Does leis­ure travel for the many have its place in a ‘green’ future for us all? Or […]

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