Lecturers

Tjaša Alegro

Tjaša Alegro is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Tourism, Slovenia. At the faculty, she teaches tutorials in the field of experience design, digital communication, media and marketing research. Her research interests are primarily in digitization in tourism, more specifically, the use of virtual reality in tourist experiences, which is also the topic of her PhD research. In the past, she was part of the research group on the Tourism 4.0 project and is currently working on the pilot project on integrating VR Technology into teaching methods.

Filipa Fernandes

Filipa Fernandes is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas at the University of Lisbon. She is a Cultural Anthropologist and holds a PhD in Tourism from University of Évora (2013). She is a senior researcher at Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa. She was a Visiting Academic at Multidimensional Tourism Institute, University of Lapland between 2014-2017. Filipa has been, since 2015, the regional representative of IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism. In 2021, she became a collaborator in the candidacy of Madeira’s levadas to UNESCO world heritage. Her work draws on heritage, memory, anthropology and tourism, tourism imaginaries and representations and touristification. Her current research interests focus on the production of Christmas tourism imaginaries in Finnish Lapland; and touristification, tourism impacts and new hospitalities in the city of Lisbon, Portugal.

Tiamat Warda

Tiamat Warda is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Multidimensional Tourism Institute (MTI) at the University of Lapland. She is part of the Research Council of Finland-funded project PAWWS, conducting research on human-dog working relationships in Finland. Tiamat’s research interest is at the intersection of Animal Organization Studies and topics concerned with emotion management. Recently, she has carried this interest over into research related to animals, such as sled dogs, working in Finnish tourism contexts.

Minni Haanpää

Minni Haanpää works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Social Sciences, Multidimensional Tourism Institute (MTI). Her research interests include tourism and event experiences, affect, value co-creation, and ethnographic methodologies, especially videography and autoethnography. Her current research projects explore the possibilities of tourism as social change in the Nordic urban context, in which she combines her everyday resident activism with her research work, and technology-mediated tourism experiences. Her work has been published in Qualitative Market Research, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Tourism Geographies, Tourism Recreation Research, Society and Leisure and in edited, peer-reviewed books.

Philip Hancock

Philip Hancock is a Professor of Work and Organisation at Essex Business School at the University of Essex, UK. His academic background is in theoretical and qualitative sociology, and he holds an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory from the University of Warwick, UK and a PhD from Keele University, UK. His research interests include practices of organisational aestheticization, the architectural management of space and place, recognition and precarity amongst live performers and, in particular, the production and reproduction of socio-economic and organisational relations at Christmas. He has published widely in leading journals in the field of organisation studies and sociology, and has published books such as Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction (Sage) and Art and Aesthetics at Work (Palgrave), while his latest book, Organizing Christmas, is to be published by Routledge in 2023.

Monika Luthje

Monika Luthje is a lecturer at the University of Lapland interested in relations between hosts in multiethnic communities in Arctic tourism destinations. Luthje’s current research focuses on settler colonialism and is co-arranging the European Indigenous Tourism Conference 2025 in Inari, Finland as a collaboration between the Sámi Parliament in Finland, World Indigenous Tourism Alliance and University of Lapland. Luthje is also the PI of the related project Sustainable Indigenous Tourism in the Nordic Arctic.

Vicente Ramos

Vicente Ramos is a Full Professor at the Department of Applied Economics & the Faculty of Tourism of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Ramos’ research interests are different aspects of Tourism Economics.