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International Conference: Nature and Tourism

9.5.2007 10:30
Nature and Tourism: Tools for Sustainability’, an international conference organized by the ’Tourist Destinations as Landscape Laboratories - Tools for Sustainable Tourism’LANDSCAPE LAB -project.

Place: the Arktikum house, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
Date: 22-24 May 2007

The basis for the EU LIFE Environment project ’Tourist Destinations as Landscape
Laboratories - Tools for Sustainable tourism’ lies in the increasing need for
knowledge about the impacts of tourism on nature, culture and local
communities. The project organizes an international conference ’Nature and
Tourism: Tools for Sustainability’ in 22-24 May 2007 in the Arktikum house,
Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi. The overall aim of the conference is to present and
discuss the issues on sustainable tourism. Both scientific and practical
approaches will be discussed in the interdiciplinary conference.

More information of the project and the conference is available in the website:
www.arcticcentre.org/landscapelab.


For more information, please contact:

Project coordinator Phd Jukka Jokimäki
University of Lapland, Arctic Centre
P.O. Box 122, FI-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
Tel. +358 16 341 2794, fax +358 16 341 2777
firstname.lastname@ulapland.fi