Funding from Nordic Research Council for Research Network on Spatial Consumption

Funding for Research Network on Spatial Consumption

The research project “Mapping the Beaten Track (MBT): Modelling Spatiotemporal Consumption” has received EUR 40.000 in research funding from the Nordic Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS).

MBT is headed by Szilvia Gyimóthy, Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing, and aims at consolidating a research network for GPS-tracking technologies for tourism. The focus of the collaboration is on developing effective tools to assess, predict and transform day visitors’ and tourists’ spatial consumption in Nordic destinations.

Apart from tourism scholars at CBS Marketing, this collaboration gathers international experts working with spatiotemporal methods at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), University of Akureyri (Iceland) as well the University of Palermo (Italy). As a new knowledge sharing platform, the project will host several workshops and a doctoral course with a GPS-hackaton and is expected to advance the conceptual and methodical horizons of tourism mobility studies.