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Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson - Professor
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson
Íslenska
Professor
Tourism studies
Location
Tæknigarður / TG-231
Phone
525 - 4055
Email
gtj [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Curriculum Vitae
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson - Curriculum Vitae
Consultation hours
Mondays 10.30-11.30
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0098-3265
Research portal – Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson
Courses 2024 - 2025
FER409G - Theories in Tourism
FER210F - Theories in Tourism Studies
LAN214F - Northern tourism: Performances and Experiences
FER214F - Sustainable Tourism Development in Northern Environment
FER614G - Career development in tourism
LAN018G - Internship for tourism and geography students
FER510G - Tourism Planning and Policy
FER111F - Tourism Planning and Policy
FER113F - Graduate Field Course: Northern Tourism in Practice
LAN018G - Internship for tourism and geography students
Education
2007
,
Ph.D.
,
Roskilde University
,
Ph.D in human geography and tourism studies
2003
,
M.A.
,
University of Iceland
,
M.A Anthropology
1999
,
B.A.
,
University of Iceland
,
B.A
Professional Experience
2014 -
2016,
Associate Professor,
University of Iceland Department of Geography and Tourism
2012 -
2014,
Assistant Professor,
University of Iceland Department of Geography and tourism
2007 -
2012,
Project manager,
University of Iceland Social Science Research Institute
2007 -
2011,
Part time teaching,
University of Iceland (Department of Anthropology and Department of Geography and Tourism)
2008 -
2011,
Post doc,
University of Iceland Social Science Research Institute
2010 -
2010,
Care taking director April through July,
University of Iceland Socieal Science Research Institute
Published works
2024
The Relationships between Service Quality, Reputation, and Performance in Hospitality
Tourism and Hospitality
Cultivating Proximities: Re-visiting the Familiar
Exploring a pedagogy of place in Iceland
Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Crisis
Mobilities and place
Tourism Entrepreneurship
Rethinking connectivity in Arctic tourism development
Annals of Tourism Research
Staying Proximate
Knowledge-Based Factors and Growth of New Hospitality Firms
2023
“Everyone can be a guide until something goes wrong”
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Introduction
Sailing the seas of tourism - past, present and future mobilities on the margins
The Value of Digital Innovation for Tourism Entrepreneurs in Rural Iceland
Academica Turistica
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour
Tourism Geographies
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development
Polar Record
Mobilities on the margins
Complexity of tourist safety in the Arctic: stakeholder's knowledge co-production
2022
Stewardship
Knowledge
Fræðslustarf í smærri ferðaþjónustufyrirtækjum: Áskoranir við uppbyggingu þjónustugæða
Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
SENSITIVE COMMUNICATION WITH PROXIMATE MESSMATES
Tourism, Culture and Communication
Hacking Hekla
Sociologia Ruralis
State and Order of Service Orientation Knowledge in Hospitality and Tourism Research
Administrative Sciences
Touring in the Arctic
Kynni unglinga af vinsælum ferðamannastöðum
Netla
2021
Journey into the Dark: Encountering Aurora Borealis
A methodology of estimating visitor numbers at an Icelandic destination using a vehicle counter and a radar
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
Twenty years of research on Arctic and Indigenous cultures in Nordic tourism: a review and future research agenda
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Introduction. Darkness: A Powerful Symbol of the Imagined North
Introduction
Áfangastaðir - Í stuttu máli
Messy realities and collaborative knowledge production in tourism
Tourist Studies
2020
On the Move: Migrant Workers in Icelandic Hotels.
Síkvik menning á mörkum hins meira en mennska: Ferðamennska, söfn og staðir
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
Actor-Network Theory
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries
Reykjavík: A Gateway, Basecamp or Independent Destination? Changing Seasonality and Changing Destination Hierarchies in Iceland
Slowing down with tourism
FINNISH JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH
Urban tourism
Introduction
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries
Introduction - Journal
2019
Looking down, staying with and moving along: Towards collaborative ways of knowing with nature in the Anthropocene
FINNISH JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH
Tending to destinations
Tourist Studies
Beyond Overtourism: Studying the Entanglements of Society and Tourism in Iceland
2018
Creative connections? Tourists, entrepreneurs and destination dynamics
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
2017
Improvising Economy: Everyday Encounters and Tourism Consumption
„Það má eitt fjall vera ósnortið fyrir þessum andskotans túristum“: Umhverfisstjórnun, náttúrutengsl og ferðamennska
The Icelandic Society
Making matter in the midst of things
Aurora Borealis
Annals of Tourism Research
ANT
Annals of Tourism Research
Bridge-builders, scouts and 'idiots'
Balancing values
Towards a collaborative manifesto
Co-creating tourism research
Collaborative becoming
Co-creation of tourism knowledge
2016
ANT, tourism and situated globality
Tourists as migrants/migrants as entrepreneurs - the agency of the visitor's eye
Weaving with witchcraft
Postscript
Earthly substances and narrative encounters
Cultural Geographies
Tourism encounters and controversies
A fish called tourism
2015
Postscript
A Fish Called Tourism
Tourism Encounters, Controversies and Ontologies
2014
Actor-Network Theory and Tourism Research: approaches
Arctic Tourism: Realities & Possibilities
Ylrækt rísómatískra sprota
Ritið
Weaving with witchcraft
Arctic Tourism: Realities & Possibilities
Clusters without Content?
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration
Fésbók logar af norðurljósum: Framsetning norðurljósa í markaðsfærslu ferðaþjónustufyrirtækja á fésbók
Moving Places
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
2013
Tourism Resolving Crisis?
Ordering, materiality and multiplicity
Tourist Studies
Ferðamál á Íslandi
Af jaðrinum: Samfléttun slóða og staða
Ordering, materiality, and multiplicity: Enacting Actor-Network Theory in tourism
Tourist Studies
Tourism Resolving Crisis?
INFORMATION SHARING IN FISH SUPPLY CHAINS
2012
Tími til að tengja?
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
"To Get Things Done"
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Introduction
Actor-network theory and tourism
Samgöngur og hreyfanleiki
Gatherings: ordering, materiality and multiplicity
A Time to Connect? On Tourism Policy Making in Iceland
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Enacting places through the connections of tourism
Tourismscapes, entrepreneurs and sustainability
How ANT works
Sköpunarverkið Strandir – þrenns konar sjónarhorn
2011
Sköpun áfangastaðar
2010
Emergent vikings
Event Management
Stakeholder views on implementation of information and supply chain management systems in the fish sector
Tourism in times of crisis
Current Issues in Tourism
Icelandic tourism
Tourism Geographies
Mannfræði fyrir byrjendur
2009
Hvordan turismens forbindelser udfolder steder
List og viðskipti
Emergent Vikings
Actor-Network Theory/Network geographies
Ferðaþjónusta á krepputímum
2008
Enacting Places through Connections of Tourism
Ferðaþjónusta á Jaðrinum
Enacting Places through Connections of Tourism
2005
Stofnanir og nýsköpun á norðurslóðum
Tourism Translations
Tourist Studies
Hreyfingar ferðaþjónustu
Landabréfið
2004
The Role of Municipalities in Innovations: Innovations in three sectors of society in two municipalities in Iceland.
2003
Coping with social capital? The cultural economy of tourism in the North
Sociologia Ruralis
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