Tobias HeldtDalarna University · Centre for Tourism and Leisure Research at Dalarna University
Tobias Heldt
Associate Professor (Docent)
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Introduction
I am an applied tourism and transport researcher with a background in behavioural economics. Currently I work on projects related to infrastructure for tourism and mobility in rural areas; field experiments on recreational trails funding and sustainable food choices; use of multiple data sources to estimate tourism volumes as well as GIS-based platforms and tools for spatial planning and scenario analysis, most recently the MIRANDA tool. I also research the horse industry in Sweden and Norway.
Additional affiliations
December 2018 - present
CeTLeR - Centre for Tourism and Leisure Research
Position
- Professor (Associate)
September 2015 - November 2018
July 2005 - January 2017
Publications
Publications (34)
The funding of recreational trails in publicly accessible nature areas is a prevailing challenge for the development of tourism destinations. In some cases, mandatory fees are neither ideologically nor legally supported, meaning that local stakeholders are reliant on the voluntary contributions of trail users. In light of the motivational barriers...
The purpose of this paper is to showcase how Public Participation
Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) can be used to assist in
collecting data of relevance for planning at a tourism destination
in general and, specifically how PPGIS data can assist in the early
stages of transportation planning. In this paper, we report on a
PPGIS study in Sälen...
Mobility planning in rural areas with a high number of tourists is important for creating sustainable destinations. By identifying mobility gaps in the transportation system, measures to improve the situation can be implemented. In order to identify such mobility gaps, decision-makers need a spatial decision support system (SDSS). The aim of this p...
This book uses a particular equestrian event (Landsmót, the National Championships of the Icelandic Horse) as a case to illustrate various aspects of managing and experiencing sports events, their impacts and their legacies. The remainder of this book is split into six sections, based around the planning, implementation and evaluation of a multispe...
Purpose
Hallmark events can be very beneficial for host communities, not least due to their potential in attracting tourists. The Peace & Love music festival was the hallmark event of the Swedish city Borlänge. In 2013, the event organization declared bankruptcy and canceled the forthcoming festival. The purpose of this study is to identify and di...
There is a considerable competition to host big sporting events. One main reason is the direct visitor spending and the expected indirect effects such as the promotion of the host city/country as a business/tourism destination. The question of what factor influence visitors’ expenditures in general has received extensive attention in the literature...
ABSTRACT
Understanding the demand and the economic impact for a hallmark event is crucial knowledge not only for the event managers but also for the public planners of the host region, especially from the viewpoint of welfare evaluation. The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly to estimate the demand for a music event using two non-market valu...
Rapporten består av tre delar, där den första studerar hur hyllmärkningar av ekologiska produkter påverkar efterfrågan på de märkta produkterna. Studien baseras på försäljningsdata från en ICA-Maxi butik belägen i Hemlingby köpcentrum i Gävle. I del två studeras hur konsumenterna värderar hälsorelaterade livsmedelsmärkningar samt hur konsumenterna...
This paper reports the findings of a natural field experiment in which cross-country skiers had the option to use their mobile phones to call in a donation to fund ski track preparations. This paper takes the Right of Public Access as given and investigates the extent to which donations or voluntary contributions can be used to finance recreational...
Comparative structure and performance of tourism in Sweden and Maine (USA) based on differences in institutions and policies.
This paper reports the findings of a natural field experiment in which cross‐country skiers had the option to use their mobile phones to call in a donation to fund ski track preparations. This paper takes the Right of Public Access as given and investigates the extent to which donations or voluntary contributions can be used to finance recreational...
Recreation management on public land involves trade-offs. For example, cross-country skiers may experience conflict with snowmobiles. A potential management response is trail separation, which may lead to gains to skiers but also ecological and financial costs associated with creation of a new trail. If separation involves snowmobile access restric...
Projektet ”Hållbar utveckling i Funäsdalsfjällen” pågick under 1999-2001 och har både nationellt och internationellt omskrivits som ett lyckosamt och banbrytande projekt med målsättning att utveckla skoterturism i den svenska fjällvärlden utan att konflikter och störningar uppstår som kan försämra förutsättningarna för andra turismgrenar i området....
Hållbar destinationsutveckling kräver samarbete mellan offentliga och privata aktörer. Den övergripande forskningsfrågan som genomsyrat arbetet med denna rapport handlar om hur samhällets resurser bäst kan användas för att utveckla turistdestinationer. Projekten Nordic Snowmobile Center och Projekt Entreprenörsutbildning Småland/Kronoberg, vilka ha...
We hypothesise that differences in people's attitudes and personality traits lead them to attribute varying importance to environmental considerations, safety, comfort, convenience and flexibility. Differences in personality traits can be revealed not only in the individuals' choice of transport, but also in other actions of their everyday lives--s...
This paper deals with government strategies to counteract rural economic decline and will focus on two problems that affects the possibility to promote nature tourism in general, and nature tourism relying on a trail network in specific. First, recreational land is a multiple use resource where the tourism use may not only lead to conflicts between...
In a natural experiment, this paper studies the impact of an informal sanctioning mechanism on individuals' voluntary contribution to a public good. Cross-country skiers' actual cash contributions in two ski resorts, one with and one without an informal sanctioning system, are used. I find the contributing share to be higher in the informal sanctio...
In a laboratory one-shot public good game, Fischbacher, Gächter and Fehr (2001) classify 50 percent of the subjects as conditional cooperators. Outside the lab, using a student sample, Frey and Meier (2005) find that people behave pro-socially, conditional on others' behavior. This paper tests for conditional cooperation and social comparisons in a...
Matching university places to students is not as clear cut or as straightforward as it ought to be. By investigating the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions in medicine and related subjects, we show that a procedure designed to give an advantage to students with excellent school grades actually harm...
Snowmobiling growth in North America and Sweden creates challenges in “governing the commons.” Snowmobiling contributes to the economy of distressed rural regions and enhances residents' quality of life; but quasi-open access to winter landscapes also breeds conflicts: among snowmobilers, with landowners, with other recreationists, and with environ...
This paper explains why neither Maine, USA's comparatively laissez faire economic and land use institutions, nor Dalarna, Sweden's more heavily regulated economy, seems well designed to make tourism a powerful economic development engine. The paper focuses on three clusters of institutions that have a major influence on tourism's scale, economic st...
Projects
Projects (3)
Projects
Research project : MARA - mobility and accessibility in rural areas
Sep 2019 – Present
Project descriptionWithin the project MARA (Mobility and Accessibility in Rural Areas - New approaches for developing mobility concepts in remote areas), researchers and practitioners will jointly study the needs and challenges that exist in rural tourism destinations.
New solutions and business models will be developed for sustainable mobility, linked to both locals and tourists' needs. The project is an international project with 12 partners from nine countries in the Baltic Sea region.
Within the project, the mobility patterns and needs of locals, businesses and tourists will be mapped. This is done, for example, through mobile data where you can follow daily and seasonal variations in the mobility of people and transport. By developing existing transport solutions and creating and testing new innovative solutions, the project aims to improve the conditions for sustainable transport and infrastructure in tourism-dominated rural
In the Swedish part of the project, researchers from CeTLeR collaborate with community and traffic planners from the Swedish Transport Administration. Part of the project will explore how a model for visualizing existing mobility can be developed, which can present how transports occur, where they occur and to what points. This is done through a dynamic map which makes it possible to see changes over time. The model is created by putting together several different types of data material and visualizing through GIS.
https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/projects/mara-182.html
