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Lexhagen, M. & Chekalina, T. (2024). Destination brand value and green transition: sustainability dimension. In: Ángel Tello Moya; Trude Furunes; Live K. Kvalsvik (Ed.), Book of abstracts for The 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research: . Paper presented at The 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research, Stavanger, September 18-20, 2024 (pp. 47-48).
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Destination brand value and green transition: sustainability dimension
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Book of abstracts for The 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research / [ed] Ángel Tello Moya; Trude Furunes; Live K. Kvalsvik, 2024, s. 47-48Konferensbidrag, Muntlig presentation med publicerat abstract (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

The project aims to explore the link between destination branding, tourism experiences, and the green transition of the tourism sector. It focuses on four key areas: a) investigating how visitors experience the sustainability of destination offerings; b) understanding how this experience impacts the perceived value of destination experience; c) examining how destination branding can encourage sustainable tourism behavior, thereby enhancing brand value and aiding the industry's green transition; d) exploring how tourism companies can leverage insights into drivers of tourist experience value to facilitate this transition. The project currently conducted in collaboration with Höga Kusten destination in Sweden seeks to extend the conceptual understanding of customer-based destination brand equity (CBDBE) by integrating the perceptions of sustainability value of destination brands. The background of the project concerns the challenges, which the tourism industry face in matching its green transition in relation to tourists' increasing and changing demand for sustainable destination experiences, tourists' acceptance of personal responsibility, actual behavior and perceived value of a sustainable tourism stay. To meet these challenges, companies and other destination actors need to understand the tourists' sustainable behavior, follow its changes and use the knowledge for building an attractive brand. In the current stage of the project, by utilizing brand and customer value theories, we design a web-based experiment to examine how perceptions of destination sustainability influence guest experiences. The projects’ main theoretical contribution relates to the extension of the CBDBE model by integrating the dimension of sustainability in experience value. The managerial implications of project findings can advance green transition in the tourism industry, enhance the understanding of the role, which destination brands play in encouraging sustainable behavior and fostering responsible guest practices. The activities in the project will also include the development of an evaluation tool and a concept sketch for a web-based app. 

Nyckelord
Customer-based destination brand equity, sustainability
Nationell ämneskategori
Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-53088 (URN)
Konferens
The 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research, Stavanger, September 18-20, 2024
Tillgänglig från: 2024-11-15 Skapad: 2024-11-15 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-11-18Bibliografiskt granskad
Chekalina, T., Lexhagen, M., Hoffman, C. & Grönskog, G. (2024). Gloomy or exciting: image, engagement and violent TV drama in a heritage destination setting. In: Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg, Maria Lexhagen (Ed.), Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations: (pp. 75-94). Channel View Publications
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2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations / [ed] Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg, Maria Lexhagen, Channel View Publications, 2024, s. 75-94Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
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Channel View Publications, 2024
Nationell ämneskategori
Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-49856 (URN)2-s2.0-85180775330 (Scopus ID)978-1-84541-894-6 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2023-11-14 Skapad: 2023-11-14 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-01-09Bibliografiskt granskad
Prince, S., Ioannides, D., Peters, A. & Chekalina, T. (2024). Tourists’ perceptions of wind turbines: conceptualizations of rural space in sustainability transitions. Tourism Geographies, 26(2), 292-310
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Tourists’ perceptions of wind turbines: conceptualizations of rural space in sustainability transitions
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Tourism Geographies, ISSN 1461-6688, E-ISSN 1470-1340, Vol. 26, nr 2, s. 292-310Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Concerns about the effects of climate change have led to an interest in identifying ways to foster sustainability transitions. In the Global North, a key approach is to eventually eliminate dependence on carbon emitting energy while moving towards renewable sources, including wind power. Since wind farms require vast amounts of land, inevitably this explains the presence of such installations in many rural regions. This situation has alarmed various stakeholders, including those involved in tourism, who see such developments as threats to idyllic notions of rurality and, by default, to the transformation of the countryside for visitor experiences. Through a series of case studies in rural Sweden, we explore the attitudes of tourists towards the presence of wind farms in the landscape. Overall, study respondents recognize the need for such installations since most accept the necessity to embark on sustainable energy transitions. In this way, they understand that many parts of rural Sweden are transforming into spaces where sustainable energy future must be negotiated. Ultimately, sustainability transitions lead to the rethinking of conventional perceptions around rural space and tourism. We suggest that geographical research on sustainability transitions in tourism should account for conceptions of rurality that involve assemblages of imagination, place framing, and power relations in sustainability transitions. This conceptualization is necessary for achieving just and sustainable energy futures.

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Informa UK Limited, 2024
Nyckelord
Landscape, place framing, renewable energy, rural tourism, sustainability transitions, sweden, wind power
Nationell ämneskategori
Social och ekonomisk geografi
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-49790 (URN)10.1080/14616688.2023.2274834 (DOI)2-s2.0-85175375558 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2023-11-08 Skapad: 2023-11-08 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-02-14Bibliografiskt granskad
Lexhagen, M., Ioannides, D., Chekalina, T. & Margaryan, L. (2024). Turism som lösning: värdeskapande perspektiv på destinationer och besökare. In: Globala utmaningar – lokala lösningar: Forskning för en hållbar samhällsutveckling i norra Sverige. Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet
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2024 (Svenska)Ingår i: Globala utmaningar – lokala lösningar: Forskning för en hållbar samhällsutveckling i norra Sverige, Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet , 2024Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
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Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet, 2024
Nationell ämneskategori
Kommunikationsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-52467 (URN)978-91-89786-75-2 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-09-16 Skapad: 2024-09-16 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-09-16Bibliografiskt granskad
Peters, A., Hübner, A., Godis, N., Setoodegan, P., Weliweriyage, S. & Chekalina, T. (Eds.). (2023). 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research – Book of Abstracts. Paper presented at The 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, 19-21 September, 2023. Östersund: Mid Sweden University
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2023 (Engelska)Proceedings (redaktörskap) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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Östersund: Mid Sweden University, 2023. s. 511
Serie
Rapportserien / European Tourism Research Institute, ISSN 1403-4220 ; 2023:1
Nationell ämneskategori
Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-49698 (URN)978-91-89786-37-0 (ISBN)
Konferens
The 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, 19-21 September, 2023
Tillgänglig från: 2023-10-30 Skapad: 2023-10-30 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-04-26Bibliografiskt granskad
Chekalina, T., Fuchs, M. & Lexhagen, M. (2022). Customer-based Destination Brand Equity Model. In: Dimitrios Buhalis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing: (pp. 742-744). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Customer-based Destination Brand Equity Model
2022 (Engelska)Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing / [ed] Dimitrios Buhalis, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, s. 742-744Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

The customer-based destination brand equity model (CBDBE) captures knowledge about the complex relationships between tourists and tourism destination brands (e.g., Buhalis and Park, 2021; Chekalina, Fuchs and Lexhagen, 2018; Tran, Nguyen and Tran, 2021). Theoretically, the CBDBE model is derived from cognitive psychology and depicts tourists’ complex responses to a tourism destination’s name. The model aims to understand the multi-dimensional brand-related memory structures that tourists hold about a destination. As a managerial tool, the CBDBE model allows us to measure a destination brand’s strength and thus evaluate a destination’s marketing success. Destination managers use the CBDBE model to identify areas that allow them to upgrade destination marketing strategies, promotional campaigns and destination product development (Tran et al., 2019).

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Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022
Nationell ämneskategori
Företagsekonomi
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-44800 (URN)
Tillgänglig från: 2022-04-06 Skapad: 2022-04-06 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-06-22Bibliografiskt granskad
Fuchs, M., Fossgard, K., Stensland, S. & Chekalina, T. (2021). Creativity and innovation in nature-based tourism: A critical reflection and empirical assessment. In: Peter Fredman and Jan Vidar Haukeland (Ed.), Nordic Perspectives on Nature-based Tourism: From place-based resources to value-added experiences (pp. 175-193). Edward Elgar Publishing
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Creativity and innovation in nature-based tourism: A critical reflection and empirical assessment
2021 (Engelska)Ingår i: Nordic Perspectives on Nature-based Tourism: From place-based resources to value-added experiences / [ed] Peter Fredman and Jan Vidar Haukeland, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, s. 175-193Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

Following the philosopher and critical economist K-H. Brodbeck, in this chapter it is shown that modern economic science is incapable of properly capturing the nature of creativity. Thus, we critically reflect on notions of creativity as used in contemporary economic science and in its classical as well as ancient predecessors of economic thinking. After pointing at destructive consequences of innovations rooted in malevolent creativity, the Creativity Consequences Analytical Framework (Kampylis and Valtanen 2010) is introduced. On this base, the chapter aims at critically assessing motivations and intentions behind and expected consequences of entrepreneurial creativity in the Norwegian NBT sector. Policy implications and an agenda for future research are sketched in the conclusions.

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021
Nyckelord
Nature-based tourism, post-mechanist economic science, innovation, benevolent creativity, lifestyle entrepreneur
Nationell ämneskategori
Samhällsvetenskap Kulturgeografi
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-37885 (URN)2-s2.0-85107069023 (Scopus ID)978 1 78990 402 4 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2019-12-05 Skapad: 2019-12-05 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-06-01Bibliografiskt granskad
Chekalina, T., Fossgard, K. & Fuchs, M. (2021). Facilitating smartly packaged nature-based tourism products through mobile CRM applications. In: Fredman Peter & Haukeland Jan Vidar (Ed.), Nordic Perspectives on Nature-based Tourism: From Place-based Resources to Value-Added Experiences (pp. 222-236). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Facilitating smartly packaged nature-based tourism products through mobile CRM applications
2021 (Engelska)Ingår i: Nordic Perspectives on Nature-based Tourism: From Place-based Resources to Value-Added Experiences / [ed] Fredman Peter & Haukeland Jan Vidar, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, s. 222-236Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

In the nature-based tourism (NBT) context, mobile applications may contribute to major aspects of the travel process, from anticipation and planning to documentation and sharing of the outdoor experience. For destinations and service providers, mobile technologies serve the purpose of building, maintaining and improving customer relationships between destination suppliers, their customers as well as between customer-peers. Therefore, mobile customer-relationship management (CRM) applications can facilitate and improve the daily operational work in the small-scale NBT domain by optimally combining the key components of the NBT tourism system, i.e. recreation activities, lodging, food, infrastructures, transportation and other services and features of the servicescape, intelligently offered as ‘smart package’. After a brief state of the art review, the chapter presents findings from an explorative assessment of existing mobile apps designed for outdoor experience facilitation. The chapter provides theoretical and applied insights into the capacity of mobile technology for smart packaging of NBT products.

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Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021
Nyckelord
mobile technology, smartphone, tourist experience, smart package, smart tourism destination
Nationell ämneskategori
Företagsekonomi
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-44778 (URN)2-s2.0-85129802726 (Scopus ID)978-1-78990-402-4 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2022-04-05 Skapad: 2022-04-05 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-05-24Bibliografiskt granskad
Prince, S. & Chekalina, T. (2019). Besökarundersökning i Tivedens nationalpark sommaren 2018: En studie av nationalparksbesökare i Tivedens nationalpark samt i det omkringliggande Tivedenområdet. Mid Sweden University
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2019 (Svenska)Rapport (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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Mid Sweden University, 2019. s. 112
Serie
Rapportserien / European Tourism Research Institute, ISSN 1403-4220 ; 2019:1
Nationell ämneskategori
Samhällsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-38146 (URN)978-91-88527-97-4 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2019-12-18 Skapad: 2019-12-18 Senast uppdaterad: 2019-12-19Bibliografiskt granskad
Laven, D., Chekalina, T., Fuchs, M., Margaryan, L., Varley, P. & Taylor, S. (2019). Building the slow adventure brand in the northern periphery. In: Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli and Szilvia Gyimóthy (Ed.), The Nordic Wave in Place Branding: Poetics, Practices, Politics (pp. 76-90). Edward Elgar Publishing
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2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: The Nordic Wave in Place Branding: Poetics, Practices, Politics / [ed] Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli and Szilvia Gyimóthy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, s. 76-90Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

This chapter introduces the SAINT project and the slow adventure concept. The core pillars of the ‘slow adventure’ brand include elements such as human-powered slow journeys, inspiring connectedness with nature, wildlife watching opportunities, nature interpretation, local, wild or slow food as well as the honing of outdoor skills. These core pillars (or themes) are highly relevant to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) involved in the SAINT project and constitute the essence of ‘slow adventure’ as a product concept. Typical nature-based activities available across the project area include expeditions into nature, overnight stays combined with nature experiences, wildlife viewing, hiking, recreational kayaking, canoeing and rowing, outdoor photography, as well as slow cooking and foraging. Most importantly, the ‘slow adventure’ product concept shapes the marketing message of the transnational cluster and brand, which companies can use to develop their product and reach the market. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of these marketing and cluster activities within the Nordic tourism context.

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019
Nationell ämneskategori
Ekonomisk geografi
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-38144 (URN)10.4337/9781788974325.00017 (DOI)2-s2.0-85102188545 (Scopus ID)978 1 78897 431 8 (ISBN)9781788974325 (ISBN)
Projekt
Slow Adventure in Northern Territories (SAINT)
Tillgänglig från: 2019-12-18 Skapad: 2019-12-18 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-12-21Bibliografiskt granskad
Organisationer
Identifikatorer
ORCID-id: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-1203-7129

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