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Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot

Polar geography enthusiast • PhD • Postdoc researcher @UniOulu 🇫🇮 • Tourism geographies • From #Vendée ⚜️❤️

Joined November 2018
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Alix Varnajot@AVarnajot
19 Aug 2023
I’ve reached the #NorthPole! 90°00’N! More than just a #fieldwork, I also reached a childhood and geographer dream. I’ll come back with amazing memories in my mind, heart and cameras! Deeply grateful to @EliseLepy, @ponant_cruises, @Arice_Eu, Arctic Interactions & @arcticants.
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Happy to share this new publication in which we highlight risks for nature-based tourists due to permafrost degradation, by bringing together periglacial geomorphology and tourism studies in @ClimaticChange_ OA: doi.org/10.1007/s10584-025-0…
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New paper alert! With @EliseLepy we provide the first comprehensive overview of tourism at the North Pole and in the central Arctic Ocean. @PolarTourism OA in @PolarGeoJournal: doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.202… Big thx @Cie_ponant, @Arice_Eu, @UniOulu, @arcticants & Arctic Interactions

Destination 90°N: dimensions and geographies of tourism at the North Pole

Despite its extreme remoteness, the geographic North Pole is attracting more tourists than ever before, bringing increasing numbers of people and ships to the Arctic Ocean. This growth is regarded ...

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Excited to contribute to this comprehensive book soon to be available! My chapter, “Using social media to examine ambassadorship in tourism” is self-explanatory and (unsurprisingly if you know me) focuses on the Polar regions. Thx @beamingsimon & @DrPatMaher for the opportunity!
Pat Maher, PhD | 🇨🇦@DrPatMaher
1 Aug 2024
Excited to see this book come together, edited with my friend @beamingsimon. Loads of excellent chapters by 60 collaborators. Available for pre-order on Aug. 8: routledge.com/Routledge-Hand… #OutdoorTechHandbook
The cover of the 'Routledge Handbook of Mobile Technology, Social Media and the Outdoors'. A background picture of a mountain, in the foreground there is a hand holding a mobile phone overlaying information about the mountain.

ALT The cover of the 'Routledge Handbook of Mobile Technology, Social Media and the Outdoors'. A background picture of a mountain, in the foreground there is a hand holding a mobile phone overlaying information about the mountain.
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Dr. Nitasha Sharma@Nitasha__Sharma
25 Jun 2024
📣Coming out late Fall where we talk about critical theoretical perspectives used in #darktourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements and future possibilities.@DrBaileyAdie @rafinkel @danceprof1 @MLKStreet @Ethan_Bottone @AVarnajot
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After #Ushuaia in 2022, the IPTRN reconvenes in #Luleå, #Sweden, under the midnight sun. Many talks to come in the next few days, both about the #Arctic and the #Antarctic. And as usual, we will tour around and meet local tourism entrepreneurs. Great week ahead! @PolarTourism
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Pat Maher, PhD | 🇨🇦@DrPatMaher
5 Jun 2024
And the 8th IPTRN begins in Luleå, Sweden 🇸🇪. Many familiar faces (@christyhehir @AVarnajot @coopsikins @ren_tourism @paddybrouder, @huijbense and more), as well as new folks I've yet to meet. Heading north to the Pinetree Lodge in Särkimukka tomorrow. @PolarTourism
Professor Dieter Müller welcoming delegates to the 8th IPTRN conference in Luleå, Sweden. Dieter is standing on a stage in front of the IPTRN banner and a background slide.

ALT Professor Dieter Müller welcoming delegates to the 8th IPTRN conference in Luleå, Sweden. Dieter is standing on a stage in front of the IPTRN banner and a background slide.
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IPTRN @PolarTourism members gathering in #Bodø for the #Arctic Congress @IASSA_SocSci @uarctic. Valuable moments around beers (of course), great talks, and exciting connections for the future!
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Is that the new last chance #tourism in the #Arctic? 🤔
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New paper out on #glacier retreat, hauntology and dark #tourism in @TourismJournal! Grateful to @EmmanuelSALIM9 for the collab! Thanks to @Nitasha__Sharma, A. Martini & D.J. Timothy for putting this special issue together, and to the reviewers. OA: doi.org/10.1080/14616688.202…

The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism

In recent decades, glaciers have become infamous symbols of climate change, and as they thaw and retreat, they leave behind haunted spaces favorable for the development of dark tourism practices. C...

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Emmanuel SALIM@EmmanuelSALIM9
18 Mar 2024
Just published 💥🚨💡 Our new #paper in @TourismJournal with @AVarnajot : The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/14616688.202…
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Dr. Nitasha Sharma@Nitasha__Sharma
18 Mar 2024
The second paper from our Special Issue on 'Dark tourism and Spectral Geographies' is out! This is one of the first articles that discusses #darktourism in the context of climate change. A special thanks to the reviewers too! @TourismJournal @AVarnajot
Emmanuel SALIM@EmmanuelSALIM9
18 Mar 2024
Just published 💥🚨💡 Our new #paper in @TourismJournal with @AVarnajot : The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/14616688.202…
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Coming soon, with a chapter on the future of the Arctic, climate change and dark tourism by yours truly 😉
Dr Philip Stone@Pip1066
15 Mar 2024
Coming soon... in the near future... a new book that examines the perils & possibilities of #DarkTourism futures... @Multi_Ling_Mat @UCLanResearch @UCLan @UCLanBusiness
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Thrilled to share this new publication in @PolarGeoJournal, in which together with @YousraMakanse, @huijbense & @machiel_lamers we explore place-making processes in #Antarctica through tourism, and in which we develop the concept of Antarctification. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Toward Antarctification? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica

Antarctic tourism has been growing increasingly and diversifying over the past two decades. In parallel, Antarctic tourism scholarship has particularly focused on tourism development and management...

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The IPTRN @PolarTourism is well represented in #Östersund 🇸🇪 for the 31th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality, from @paddybrouder’s keynote to many presentations in the various sessions. #NORTHORS @Mittuni Some great work coming ahead 😉
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Olga Hannonen, PhD@olgahannonen
19 Sep 2023
The Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research at @MidSwedenUni is opened with a keynote by @paddybrouder, who asks 'Where is the Transformation of Tourism?' #tourism #Östersund #Sweden
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Happy to be teaching Master students from @Mittuni about #Arctic #tourism, #climate change and #sustainability, ahead of the #NORTHORS conference! And what a nice campus!
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Aaaand back to #Svalbard, after 2 weeks, conducting interviews, running surveys and engaging with passengers onboard Le Commandant Charcot and at the #NorthPole. @EliseLepy Thanks again to @ponant_cruises, @Arice_Eu, Arctic Interactions, @arcticants & @UniOulu for the support!
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In this newly published paper in @ThePolarJournal, together with @AapoLunden, @outi_marja & Mari Partanen, we examine ongoing processes of Arctification in tourism in Ylläs, Finnish Lapland. Have a read should you feel interested! @PolarTourism @UniOulu doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.202…

Globalised imaginaries, Arctification and resistance in Arctic tourism – an Arctification perspec...

This paper explores the relationship between regional branding, global visions of the Arctic, and tourism seasonality. We analyse tourism development in the Ylläs tourism destination in Finnish Lap...

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There it is, the North Pole, 90°00’N! The ship ‘parked’ on an ice floe and then drifted for 2 days, following currents. 2 busy days for @EliseLepy and I, conducting ethnographic fieldwork among passengers, engaging in sea ice physics… @ponant_cruises @arcticants @PolarTourism
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