Jarkko Saarinen
Professor
Department of Tourism Management
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Biography
Jarkko Saarinen is an Extraordinary Professor at the Division Tourism Management, Department of Marketing Management. He is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. His role at the University of Pretoria is supervising master and doctoral students and research collaboration. His recent publications include co-edited books: Political Ecology and Tourism (2016), Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa (2016) and Tourism Planning and Development (forthcoming).
Research Interest
His own research interest include tourism development and management, sustainability and responsibility in tourism, tourism-community relations, tourism and climate change, nature-based tourism and conservation issues.
Publications
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Chiutsi S, Saarinen J. Local participation in transfrontier tourism: Case of Sengwe community in Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa. 2017 May 4;34(3):260-75.
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Tervo-Kankare K, Saarinen J, Kimaro ME, Moswete NN. Nature-based tourism operators’ responses to changing environment and climate in Uis, Namibia. African Geographical Review. 2017 Feb 12:1-1.
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Saarinen J. Tourism development and local communities: the direct benefits of tourism to Ovahimba communities in the Kaokoland, Northwest Namibia. Tourism Review International. 2011 Jan 1;15(1-2):149-57.
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Saarinen J. Enclavic tourism spaces: territorialization and bordering in tourism destination development and planning. Tourism Geographies. 2017 May 27;19(3):425-37.
