The Future of Tourism

Prof. Dr. Edward Huijbens

Chair of the research group in Cultural Geography

Wageningen University & Research

EDWARD H. HUIJBENS (b. 1976) Geographer, scholar of tourism, professor and chair of Wageningen University cultural geography research group. Edward finished a B.Sc. in Geography at the University of Iceland in the spring 2000, MA and later a PhD in Cultural Geography mid-year 2005, both at Durham University, England. In 2004 2006, along with completing the PhD, he taught and did research at the University of Iceland, both in the faculty of science and the faculty of economics and business administration. From 2006 2015 he directed the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre and developed a holistic research agenda for tourism during a period of the industrys exponential growth in Iceland. From 2015 till 2019 Edward was a professor at the school of social sciences and humanities at the University of Akureyri, where he also served as department head for the faculty of social sciences and law from 2017 till February 2019.

Edward works on tourism theory, issues of regional development, landscape perceptions, the role of transport in tourism and polar tourism. He is author of over 30 articles in several scholarly journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Geographies and has published three monographs in both Iceland and internationally and co-edited four books.

Beyond regular academic mentoring and course teaching Edward has taught twice on the prestigious programme Semester at Sea, run by the Institute of Shipboard Education from the US, autumn 2016 and autumn 2018. On the latter occasion he ran Global Studies, the course all student aboard are require to attend. Edward is the author of articles in several scholarly journals in both Iceland and internationally and has co-edited Technology in Society/Society in Technology (2005, University of Iceland Press), Sensi/able Spaces: Space, art and the environment (2007, Cambridge Scholars Press) and The Illuminating Traveller (2008, University of Jyväskylä), Tourism and the Anthropocene (2016, Routledge) and is one of two authors of the book Icelandic Tourism (Forlagið, 2013). In April 2021 his book Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene will be published by Routledge.

In addition to his academic roles, Edward has been politically active with the Left Green party in Iceland, serving in several municipal committees for his home community, Akureyri (pop. 18.000), acting as reserve member of parliament and as of 2017 serving as the partys vice chairman as the party led the government coalition formed after the 2017 autumn elections in Iceland.

Dr. Arjaan Pellis

Lecturer Cultural Geography

Wageningen University & Research

I am a graduate from the Erasmus School of Management (MA in Business-Society Managemen) and Wageningen University (MSc Tourism, Society and Environment and Phd in Cultural Geography). I work as a lecturer in Cultural Geography at Wageningen University.

Next to my teaching in various tourism related courses, both online and on our campus, my research focuses on the role and evolution of social conflicts in various tourism practices. I have published on various fieldwork observations related to ecotourism, natural and cultural heritage, particularly in context of Namibia, Kenya, Spain and Portugal. By observing conflicts across these cases I aim to explore how conflicts play an important role in shaping dynamic tourism landscapes.

Dr. Martijn Duineveld

Associate Professor Cultural Geography Group

Wageningen University & Research

Martijn Duineveld is Associate professor at the Cultural Geography Group Wageningen University and he was co-director of the Centre for Space, Place and Society (2019-2022). He is co-founder and active contributor to the emerging body of literature on Evolutionary Governance Theory. Currently he is involved in the W O L F project which exposes how big industry obstructs transitions to a low-emission society and climate justice.

Martijn has been involved in many international research and consultancy projects situated in Argentina, Uganda, Georgia and Russia. He also studied urban fringes and cities in the Netherlands (The Bulb region (2005-2010), Groningen (2010-2012) and Arnhem (2013-2018). In these cases, he explores the power interplays between local politicians, planners, designers, project developers and citizens. is studies have been published in innovative ways, speaking to academia and the broader public, including film-making, newspaper articles, and local news blogs.

Cheryl van Adrichem

Lecturer Cultural Geography Group

Wageningen University & Research

Cheryl van Adrichem is a lecturer and PhD Candidate in the Cultural Geography Group of Wageningen University. Her main research interest lies in the impact of tourism and tourism transportation on climate change. In her current research, she analyses the dependency of the tourism on aviation and aims to identify pathways for future travel under climate change mitigation challenges and restraints