Alix Varnajot

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

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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.

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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: https://t.co/DGUuZZqtYk

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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: https://t.co/DDPsJgNkdS

Big thx @Cie_ponant, @Arice_Eu, @UniOulu, @arcticants & Arctic Interactions

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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]

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: https://t.co/YtPpw2G9wu #OutdoorTechHandbook

[Dr. Nitasha Sharma @Nitasha__Sharma]

📣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

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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

[Pat Maher, PhD | 🇨🇦 @DrPatMaher]

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

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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!

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

Is that the new last chance #tourism in the #Arctic? 🤔

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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: https://t.co/8JAmHhpt4T

[Emmanuel SALIM @EmmanuelSALIM9]

Just published 💥🚨💡

Our new #paper in @TourismJournal with @AVarnajot :

The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism

Available #OpenAccess: https://t.co/ZGHUm9zV3e

[Dr. Nitasha Sharma @Nitasha__Sharma]

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

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

Coming soon, with a chapter on the future of the Arctic, climate change and dark tourism by yours truly 😉

[Dr Philip Stone @Pip1066]

Coming soon... in the near future... a new book that examines the perils & possibilities of #DarkTourism futures...

@Multi_Ling_Mat @UCLanResearch @UCLan @UCLanBusiness

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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.
https://t.co/yWWFTER8jf

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

@DrPatMaher @PolarTourism @uarctic @ulapland This looks familiar 😉
Merry Christmas @DrPatMaher

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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 😉

[Olga Hannonen, PhD @olgahannonen]

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

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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!

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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!

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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
https://t.co/oWlRVYqDcK

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

@AnneHardyTas @EliseLepy @ponant_cruises @arcticants @PolarTourism Looking forward for talking more with you and for future collaborations! Hope to make it to Hobart for CAUTHE next Feb!

[Alix Varnajot @AVarnajot]

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