Sustainable Hunting Tourism - Business opportunity in Northern Areas
28.08.2007
The Research and Development Centre of the University of Akureyri (RHA), in collaboration with, The Icelandic Tourism Research Centre (ITRC), the Environmental and Food Agency's wildlife management division and the Association of Reindeer Guides in Iceland, are partners in a joint Nordic research and development project on hunting tourism. The project aims to develop sustainable tourism around hunting in terms of economic, social and environmental sustainability. It is funded by the Northern Periphery Programme and the preliminary preparations are now complete. A report detailing the status of hunting tourism in Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Canada is now available.