Emily Höckert

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• PhD, Tourism Research
• PostDoc Position at University of Lapland

How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible tourism encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee-cultivating communities in Nicaragua. The research follows the trail of development practitioners and researchers who travel with a desire to help, teach and study t...

Cultural sensitivity is highly relevant but inadequately conceptualized in tourism contexts. This article explores and advances understanding of cultural sensitivity in relation to Arctic tourism where local and Indigenous livelihoods and environments are tethered to dynamics of recent tourism growth and decline, climate change, and colonial power...

In this article, we seek to “vegetalize” tourism research and practice by storying why plants matter. Drawing on our respective research with cranberries in Canada and blueberries in Finland and Sweden, we present a miscellany of stories that serve to both unsettle and cultivate relations within landscapes and practices of tourism. The stories spin...

Highlights - Demands reconsideration and transformation of tourism due to planetary crises - Extends the idea of community and wellbeing to non-human nature - Calls for relational, proximate approaches for reconfiguring tourism theory

The ongoing ecological crisis calls for new mindsets, concepts, theoretical repertoires, and metaphors that can help us shape the ways in which realities are perceived and handled.Against this backdrop, this chapter discusses the importance of multispecies approaches in the research agenda for Arctic tourism. The chapter stands on the shoulders of...

Market-driven development, outsider operators with little knowledge of Indigenous or other local cultures, stereotypical representations and cultural appropriation are common interrelated problems in Arctic tourism. This chapter brings together discussions of social practices and cultural sensitivity in order to gain a better understanding of how m...

The Anthropocene, introduced by scientists in 2000 to name the current geological epoch, draws attention to the scale and force of anthropogenic impacts on Earth systems. With this special issue, we aim to inspire and assemble scholarship that has an intentional focus on understanding, critiquing, and (re)imagining relationships between leisure and...

Tässä katsausartikkelissa Lapin yliopiston matkailututkijat tarkastelevat teemoja, joiden voidaan katsoa sijoittuvan suomalaisen kriittisen yhteiskuntatieteellisen matkailututkimuksen keskiöön. Uuden työn, matkailun vastuullisen talouden, hitauden ja läheisyyden, monilajisuuden, osallisuuden ja kulttuurisensitiivisyyden teemojen kautta on viime vuo...

Amid the multiple ecological crises at present, this entry approaches responsible innovation as a creative and collaborative process that recognizes the agency of other-than-human species. Drawing on the environmental humanities, it introduces the genre of scientific fables that can stretch our imaginations and circles of care beyond human-centric...

This chapter seeks to cultivate the art of attentiveness to more-than-human ways of being and knowing that have ended up in the margins of our everyday attention. It problematises the human-centred idea of marginality by engaging in multispecies storytelling with local mosses in the Pyhä-Luosto National Park in northern Finland. The authors explore...

This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apo...

In ‘Inquiring with hospitable methodologies,’ Emily Höckert and Bryan Grimwood engage with postcolonial philosophies of hospitality that approach ethical subjectivity as openness to alterity and ‘the other.’ Following especially in the footsteps of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, the chapter explores what research would be or become , and wha...

In this book, we have been messing up and speculating rather than classifying, offering accurate representations or nailing things down. Instead of providing clear answers or claiming to solve the ecological crisis, we have tested different ways of attending to our proximate relations with a curiosity about what might happen or become. In this spir...

Our chapter springs from discussions about our roles as tourism researchers in the Arctic in the midst of ecological crisis. We see this chapter as an opportunity to become and stay proximate with the idea of fragility as a collective space where we recognise our weaknesses, dependencies, and solidarities—the fragility of life. We approach fragilit...

The introductory chapter ‘Staying proximate’ welcomes the reader to stay with more-than-human relations in present times of ecological crisis, known as the age of the Anthropocene. The chapter joins feminist, postcolonial, and Indigenous environmental scholars’ call for more nuanced alternatives to the Anthropocenic imaginary, ones that attend to t...

EARTH’S VOICE-EXHIBITION Cabins of Pyhä-Luosto National Park 16.9.2023-14.9.2024 Tourism industry has traditionally been developed to meet the needs of tourists and businesses. However, the escalating ecological crisis has put in question the responsibility and sustainability of the contemporary forms of tourism development. Outi Rantala, Professo...

The research at hand experiments with the communication that occurs in the encounters and entanglements between human and more-than-human agencies. It builds on the emerging debates on qualitative methodologies informed by new materialism, which help us recognize how more-than-humans can communicate and participate in producing and sharing knowledg...

CFP: LEISURE AND THE ANTHROPOCENE Climate change is an existential, multi-species crisis. It is, arguably, the most severe symptom of planetary transformations that are accelerating due to anthropogenic impacts on the environment. The Anthropocene, introduced by scientists in 2000 to name the current geological epoch, draws attention to the scale a...

As global interests increase in the Arctic, there is a pressing need to rethink the ways Indigenous and other local cultures are presented and visited in the region. Through an online learning environment, we wish to foster knowledge and reflection about culturally sensitive tourism encounters among different kinds of tourism actors. Cultural sensi...

Axiology is the foundational philosophy used for values-based teaching because it provides a way to bridge the dichotomy of values interpreted as being either objective or subjective entities. The foundation for Axiology is based on an axiom of value which focuses on what is good, and guides us to see actions and thoughts as having more or less goo...

Tourism introduces us to a different culture and its values. Tourism education reflects the values of a particular culture. Both offer a potential for personal growth that can be accessed only by reflecting upon these values. This reflection might yield unexpected results: the awareness that Western education's emphasis on individualism, logic and...

Learning as an active verb is the core of conscious didactics. It is important for us as teachers to focus on creating successful learning outcomes because this leads to better teaching practices. For that, we need to establish an aligned open learning system by appreciating different learning preferences and designing learning processes that are a...

Hotel Anthropocene is a new hotel advertised as a luxury all-inclusive resort. It was until recently operated under the name of ´Hotel Holocene´, but due to the widespread attention the Anthropocene has received the new owners decided to change its name. The day at the Hotel Anthropocene, written in the form of fiction, renders different ways of kn...

Link to webinar recording: https://www.cultsense.com/videos/webinar-fostering-culturally-sensitive-practices-in-tourism/?fbclid=IwAR2rCwJcyygN_JZVoocpbKVPvwAr2oFpztSDFGeqG43eh9hhVzzEj_cDH4E

Webinar on Fostering Culturally-Sensitive Practices in Tourism, with research and cases

The need to re-envision alternative paradigms in tourism is becoming evident with the increasingly experienced climate change and degradation of life supporting ecosystem services, to which the tourism industry has a significant adverse contribution. Could tourism be re-envisioned to bring positive effects on social, environmental and individual we...

The purpose of this chapter is to approach inclusion by discussing the roles of hosts and guests in participatory tourism projects. Instead of drawing inspiration from the predominant understanding of host–guest relations within hospitality management, we call attention to the more ‘ancient’ idea of hospitality, where – in its simplest form – hosts...

The research at hand experiments with the communication that occurs in the encounters and entanglements between human and more-than-human agencies. It builds on the emerging debates on qualitative methodologies informed by new materialism, which help us recognise how more-than-humans can communicate and participate in producing and sharing knowledg...

Exactly one decade ago, John Urry (2010) presented a range of possible futures for the middle of this century assuming that global warming continued to escalate. In his scenarios, Urry described the substantial breakdown of the multiple mobility, energy and communication connections that continue to straddle our globalized market society. This snap...

Through a critical reading of previous research, this article explores local and indigenous cultures in the context of Nordic Arctic tourism and how its consequences have been researched in Nordic tourism research. We show that experiences with, practices of and controversies over the representation and presence (or absence) of local and indigenous...

Researchers have, most commonly, been studying souvenirs from two different streams: one that discusses the impact of souvenirs on the producers and another that focuses more on tourists as consumers of the souvenirs. Recently, the studies have also concentrated on the stories given with souvenirs, connectiveness to places and on the effectiveness...

The use of Sámi cultures in the Finnish tourism business has been problematic for many decades. The aim of this article is to explore how the notion of cultural sensitivity could help to find alternative approaches and new solutions to this situation, especially for Sámi tourism. For this purpose, a systematic literature review method was used to e...

The report offers an overview of tourism development in Finnish Lapland with a focus on cultural sensitivity. What does cultural sensitivity mean? Why it is important to discuss culturally sensitive tourism in Finnish Lapland? How could cultural sensitivity be enhanced, and what kinds of challenges might it present? These questions are approached w...

The current Earthly crisis demands new imaginings, conceptualisations and practices of tourism. This paper develops a post-anthropocentric approach to envisioning the possibilities of the 'proximate' in tourism settings. The existing generic definitions of proximity tourism refer to a form of tourism that emphasises local destinations, short distan...

Julkaisussa luodaan yleiskatsaus Suomen Lapin matkailun nykytilaan ja tulevaisuuteen kulttuurisensitiivisyyden näkökulmasta. Mitä kulttuurisensitiivisyys tarkoittaa? Miksi sen huomioiminen Lapin matkailussa on tärkeää? Miten sitä voitaisiin vahvistaa ja mitä haasteita siihen sisältyy? Kysymyksiä tarkastellaan erityisesti saamelaisten kulttuurien nä...

This transnational report approaches current tourism development in the Arctic through the lens of cultural sensitivity. What does cultural sensitivity mean? In which ways can Indigenous peoples and other local communities utilize their cultural heritage and contemporary life in creating successful tourism products and services? Based on a tourist...

Knowing-with is about togetherness, about being in relations with multiple others. While this can be used to refer to knowledge collectives formed by tourism scholars, the fruitfulness of the notion of knowing-with lies in the way in which it helps us to recognise our entanglements with a wider range of creatures. The era of the Anthropocene has ch...

The paper approaches inclusion from the perspective of participatory tourism development by discussing the roles of hosts and guests in both research and practice. It offers and overview of histories of participatory development, moving towards contemporary debates on the importance of including local communities in tourism development. The paper i...

In this paper, five authors account for the rethinking of a conference as a series of postcards, letters, rules and silent moments so that traditional hierarchies of knowledge could be overturned or, at least, sidelined. We recount how the place we convened was enlisted as an actor and the dramas and devices we applied to encounter it. We use this...

In this paper, five authors account for the rethinking of a conference as a series of postcards, letters, rules and silent moments so that traditional hierarchies of knowledge could be overturned or, at least, sidelined. We recount how the place we convened was enlisted as an actor and the dramas and devices we applied to encounter it. We use this...

Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Journal Special Issue / Call for Papers

This short case-study -- published in Tazim Jamal's (2019) book 'Justice and Ethics in Tourism' underlines the importance of environmentally and culturally sensitive ways of welcoming tourists in the Arctic.

- Building our stories: Co-creating tourism futures in research, education and practice - Storytelling is a powerful way of exploring the past, crafting values in the present and imagining the future. Stories, told from different perspectives and drawing from diverse experiences, can build shared understandings, empathy and care. Everyday stories...

The article illuminates one of the central ethical questions concerning tourist photography: the ways in which tourists photograph local people in tourist destinations. In line with the previous research on tourist photography, the study suggests that tourists' experiences of responsible behaviour become continuously redefined and negotiated in rel...

There I was sitting on my Airport-hotel-room’s balcony, gathering sunbeams and breathing warm Mallorca air. I had the world’s biggest smile on my face: it felt almost surreal to be on this island for a tourism conference. I had lived here eleven years ago when I studied tourism at The University of the Balearic Islands and worked at a hotel by the...

Kan man använda begreppet 'gästfrihet' om näringidkare inom turismbranchen? Vad menar vi egentligen med 'gästfrihet'? Emily Höckert visar att frågorna är komplicerade. Utmaningen består i hur vi ska beskriva mötet mellan människor.

In recent decades, the idea of community participation has played an important role in the search for sustainability, solidarity and inclusion in tourism development. The concept of participatory development has evolved in the course of rich and contradictory discussions on good life, democracy and colonialism towards a vision of alternative and sm...

The chapter examines the ethics of togetherness by paying attention to the relations of welcoming between, on the one hand, rural communities as hosts and, on the other hand, tourism researchers and developers as ‘tidy guests’. 'Unlerning through Hospitality' presents a fictional field visit to Northern Highlands of Nicaragua weaving together piece...

Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests envisions alternative arrangements of social life by welcoming 'the untidy guest' to discourses, theories and philosophies of tourism. Written by an author collective with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, tourism, hospitality and development studies, the book transfers the focus of tourism theories away...

The camping experiment is soon coming to an end. We are packing our tents and kettles, and are ready to return home. One more time we sit down around the campfire and reflect on what has happened. Have we provided well-placed stepping stones through the theoretical and literary landscapes to support ontological reconsiderations in tourism and hospi...

We are expecting guests so we are cleaning our house — even though we very well know that after our guests leave, the house will likely be even messier than it was before. What is the point then? Is all the trouble for nothing? No. If the house was too dirty our guests would not be able to enjoy themselves, no matter how good the talk, the food, th...

Matkailua kehitetään monenlaisissa maaseutumaisissa toimintaympäristöissä ympäri maailmaa. Vastuullisen matkailukehityksen keskusteluissa painotetaan usein maaseudun yhteisöjen mahdollisuuksia kontrolloida alueen matkailukehitystä ja siihen liittyviä toimia. Maaseudun matkailun paikallista kehittämistä on tutkittu erityisesti tasa-arvoisuuden edist...

Despite criticism, community-based tourism continues to be considered as a promising strategy for sustainable development and poverty reduction. In practice, the planning and evaluation of even supposedly responsible tourism initiatives, has concentrated upon rapid economic and environmental impacts. This article contributes to the discussion surro...

Rural community-based tourism (turismo rural y comunitario) is small-scale tourism in poor rural areas, where the local people are active actors in tourism development. It is often perceived as a sustainable and responsible form of tourism. However, in practice the planning and evaluation of the tourism development is often concentrated only upon r...