{"id":1547,"date":"2024-10-04T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matkailu.samediggi.fi\/eitc-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:45:30","slug":"eitc-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matkailu.samediggi.fi\/en\/eitc-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the European Indigenous Tourism Conference EITC 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Link<\/a> to the conference recording, 21 May 2025, subtitles in English.<\/p>\n

Description: The recording features Chief Frank Antoine, Lennart Pittja, John Barrett, Silje Karine Muotka, Christina H\u00e6tta, Kirsi Suomi, S\u00e9bastien Desnoyers-Picard, Aviaja Jensen, Emma Krupula, Ann-Kristine Bongo and Monika L\u00fcthje. The moderator is Suvi West.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a> to the conference recording, 22 May 2025, subtitles in English.<\/p>\n

Description: The recording features John Barrett, Ellinor Guttorm Utsi, Taija Aikio, Carina Ren, Chief Frank Antoine, S\u00e9bastien Desnoyers-Picard, Stine Selmer and Ann-Kristine Bongo. The moderator is Suvi West.<\/p>\n

Download here<\/a> a poster-that summarises the main points of sustainable tourism on Indigenous lands based on the EITC 2025 presentations.<\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”custom” text_uppercase=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”728738″ heading_custom_size=”clamp(30px,5vw,55px)”]Welcome to the European Indigenous Tourism Conference EITC 2025![\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_color=”color-nhtu” uncode_shortcode_id=”127507″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]Welcome to the European Indigenous Tourism Conference EITC 2025!<\/p>\n

The World Indigenous Tourism Alliance (WINTA), together with the S\u00e1mi Parliament in Finland and University of Lapland cordially invite you to the European Indigenous Tourism Conference EITC 2025 to be held 20-22 May 2025 in Inari, Finland, and online.<\/p>\n

EITC 2025 focuses on ethically sustainable Indigenous tourism. The organisers warmly welcome all interested in the topic, particularly Indigenous tourism entrepreneurs and stakeholders from S\u00e1pmi, Greenland and elsewhere in the world, as well as other related representatives from the tourism sector and researchers from different fields of Indigenous research.<\/p>\n

An Indigenous Tourism Research Symposium will be organised as a component of the Conference on 20 May 2025. On 21 and 22 May, the programme will focus on the practice of ethically sustainable Indigenous tourism.<\/p>\n

The conference will have simultaneous interpretation in English, Finnish, Inari S\u00e1mi, North S\u00e1mi and Skolt S\u00e1mi with the exception of the research symposium which will be in English only.<\/p>\n

Conference registration takes place here<\/a>. For online participants, there is no registration fee. For onsite participants, there is a fee to cover the costs of meals. The onsite participants also pay their own travel and accommodation costs. Information on available accommodation options can be found on the registration page.<\/p>\n

The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture has granted funding for the conference arrangements.<\/p>\n

Contact person:<\/strong>
\nMonika L\u00fcthje, University of Lapland, tel. +358-40-484 4198, monika.luthje@ulapland.fi<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tab][vc_tab gutter_size=”2″ column_padding=”3″ title=”Symposium” tab_id=”1728039418-2-47″ slug=”symposium”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”custom” text_uppercase=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”166230″ heading_custom_size=”clamp(30px,4vw,40px), 4em”]Indigenous Tourism Research Symposium[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_color=”color-nhtu” uncode_shortcode_id=”323442″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]The World Indigenous Tourism Alliance, together with the S\u00e1mi Parliament in Finland and University of Lapland cordially invite you to the Indigenous Tourism Research Symposium to be held on 20 May 2025 in Inari, Finland, and online as a component of the European Indigenous Tourism Conference EITC 2025.<\/p>\n

The Organising Committee invites the submission of abstracts for the Research Symposium. We welcome original research work conducted from diverse disciplinary perspectives including tourism and Indigenous research, the wider field of social sciences, economics and law. In addition to academic papers, we encourage grassroots Indigenous communities to submit presentations based on their lived experiences and worldviews. We give priority to presentations based on Indigenous ways of presentation conveying knowledge (e.g., storytelling, vocal music) and presentations that can serve as an empowering source of inspiration for Indigenous communities and tourism entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Theme and Topics of Interest<\/h3>\n

The theme of the Research Symposium is tourism and Indigenous cultural heritage. The relations and connections between tourism and Indigenous cultural heritage, and accusations of appropriation, appreciation and excessive restrictions have been eagerly discussed topics. When tourism is Indigenous-led or developed in a respectful partnership with Indigenous local communities, it can play a crucial role in cultural preservation and revitalisation, providing opportunities for Indigenous entrepreneurs and communities. Indigenous tourism can contribute to the economic strength of Indigenous communities by creating jobs and income for traditional knowledge holders and create an opportunity for the young generation to learn and become skilled guides, storytellers, handcrafters and entrepreneurs. For this to happen, Indigenous tourism needs to be embedded within the community from where knowledge is provided. Indigenous people also need to tell their own story in tourism contexts.<\/p>\n

Indigenous peoples and research have been criticising the exploitation of Indigenous cultural heritage in tourism for quite some time. Discussions on the detrimental impact of tourism on Indigenous peoples and on cultural appropriation have in recent decades spread to the awareness of the general public. As a result of this, the cultural appropriation and exploitation of Indigenous cultural heritage may have gained more subtle and hidden forms, not only in tourism but also more widely in business and popular culture. Indigenous washing – comparable to green washing – is a new phenomenon that is so far little researched in relation to tourism or other businesses, or with regard to its wider societal impacts.<\/p>\n

Green washing is also a pertinent issue in tourism taking place on Indigenous lands. It makes tourism businesses look sustainable, thus masking its destructive impacts on the natural and cultural environment. The green washers are assumed to be responsible, sustainable companies, and this assumption may be extended to the ways in which Indigenous peoples and cultures are treated in the companies. The ongoing climate crisis and the accompanying green transition with its injustices are further threats to Indigenous cultural heritage. For example, in S\u00e1pmi (S\u00e1miland), the construction of windmills threatens reindeer herding that is already suffering from land grabbing, mining, large-scale logging and other competing forms of land use, including tourism. Ecolabels and sustainable tourism certifications may hide these and other kinds of injustices. At the same time, Indigenous peoples aim to have a stronger hold on tourism by creating Indigenous codes of ethics and certifications for tourism. Tourism and Indigenous peoples may also have common interests regarding nature protection. Arctic tourism does not flourish without a well-being environment.<\/p>\n

Tourism utilises cultural heritage in multiple ways. Museums which, according to their definition, conserve, store and represent cultural heritage, are among the most well-known tourism destinations. In addition to national cultural heritage, a lot of Indigenous peoples\u2019 cultural heritage has been collected into them. The ownership, management and representation of Indigenous heritage has been discussed both within the museum field and with Indigenous peoples already for several decades. Nowadays, Indigenous peoples\u2019 right to their cultural heritage is recognised increasingly widely. The repatriation projects that have started as a result of this have generated wider calls for the decolonisation of the cultural heritage field as well as efforts where the repatriation has paved its way to a wider community-based control and redefinition of cultural heritage based on Indigenous worlds and conditions. Indigenous-based redefinition of the museum is a worldwide phenomenon where the purposes of the museum are reconsidered. The development of alternative community-based models \u2013 decolonisation and Indigenisation \u2013 is also an emerging topic of discussion in the tourism sector, including tourism research, with the aim to build a more just society, economy and knowledge production. So far, the relations of Indigenous museums and tourism have, however, barely been researched.<\/p>\n

The intersection of tourism, Indigenous cultural heritage and the following are topics of interest:<\/p>\n