The Finnish Journal of Tourism Research is a multidisciplinary scientific journal published by the Finnish Society for Tourism Research that focuses on tourism, recreation and leisure. The journal publishes peer reviewed articles and review articles (double-blind peer review) and research notes (open peer review) in Finnish, Swedish and English, as well as non-peer reviewed articles in the perspectives and introductory lectures (lectio praecursoria) sections.
Editorial Team
Editors in Chief
Juho Pesonen
University of Eastern Finland
juho.pesonen[at]uef.fi
Sanna-Mari Renfors
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
sanna-mari.renfors[at]samk.fi
Sub-editor
Johanna Heinonen
Itä-Suomen yliopisto
johanna.heinonen[at]uef.fi
Editorial Board
José-Carlos García-Rosell, Social Media Editor, Senior Lecturer, University of Lapland (corporate social responsibility; responsible tourism business; stakeholder theory; service design; tourism education).
Peter Björk, Professor, Hanken School of Economics (marketing; consumer behaviour; destination development; tourist experience; service systems).
Johan R. Edelheim, Professor of Tourism and Media, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Japan (tourist attractions; tourist and hospitality higher education; tourism philosophy; qualitative methods in tourism and hospitality research).
Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA (tourism mobilities; critical hospitality studies; emotion and tourism; network hospitality; mobile families; digital nomads).
C. Michael Hall, Professor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; University of Oulu, Finland; Linnaeus University, Sweden (regional development; climate change; environmental change; policy).
Antti Honkanen, Professor, University of Lapland, Multidimensional Tourism Institute (seasonality; motivation; consumer behavior; festivals).
Tuomas Hovi, University Teacher in Folkloristics, University of Turku (tradition; popular culture; heritage; Dracula; Finnish Americans; cultural identity).
Emily Höckert, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Lapland (hospitality; tourism; ethics; responsibility; sensitivity; care; cultural studies of tourism; proximity tourism; indigenous tourism; postcolonial studies; hermeneutic phenomenology; new-materialism; anthropocene; storytelling).
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson, Professor, University of Iceland, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences (destination development; more-than-human; actor-network-theory; relational materialism; entrepreneurship; innovation; workforce and labour; policy).
Carol Kline, Associate Professor, Hospitality & Tourism Management, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA (animals; animal welfare; animal ethics; sustainable tourism; tourism planning; niche tourism; social justice; environment).
Raija Komppula, Professor of Tourism Business, University of Eastern Finland, Business School (tourist behavior; tourism marketing; experiential marketing; destination marketing; tourism business; entrepreneurship; service development; social tourism; nature-based tourism; rural tourism; wellbeing tourism).
Henna Konu, Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (experience design; experiential service development; tourism product; customer insight; tourist experiences; nature-based tourism; nature connectedness; transformative travel; sustainable tourism; wellbeing tourism; tourism as a part of a bioeconomy).
Dieter K. Müller, Professor, Department of Geography, Umeå University, Sweden (second homes; Arctic tourism; destination development; tourism impacts; indigenous tourism; mobilities; tourism geographies).
Juho Pesonen, Head of Research (digital tourism business), University of Eastern Finland, Business School (marketing; digitalization; sharing economy; technology; etourism; social media).
Kati Pitkänen, Senior Researcher, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE (second homes; rural development; nature-based recreation; circular economy; recycling).
Riikka Puhakka, Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme (nature-based tourism; outdoor recreation; sustainable tourism; environmental responsibility).
Tijana Rakić, Dr. University of Brighton, UK (visual research methods; ethnography; representations of places, cultures and identities in tourism; heritage, tourism and national identity).
Sanna-Mari Renfors, Chief Researcher, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (sustainable tourism development; circular tourism; tourism education).
Juulia Räikkönen, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Turku, Turku School of Economics & Biodiversity Unit (tourism experiences; special interest tourism; science tourism; experiences; experience value; experiential technologies; wellness tourism; package tourism).
Jarkko Saarinen, Professor, Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, (tourism and development; sustainable tourism; community-based tourism; tourism and climate change).
Svetlana Tereshchenko, Associated Professor, Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University (forest tourism; nature-based tourism; sustainable development of nature-based tourism).
Kaarina Tervo-Kankare, Senior Lecturer, University of Oulu (tourism and global environmental change; climate change; nature-based tourism; sustainable tourism development; responsible tourism).
Seija Tuulentie, Senior Researcher, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (nature-based tourism; land use conflicts; reconciliation of natural resource use; local knowledge; second homes; Arctic society).
