Stefan Hartman
Destination management
Sustainable tourism
Dr. Stefan Hartman holds the position of head of the department at the European Tourism Futures Institute (ETFI) at NHL Stenden University in the Netherlands. Here, he assists actors in the leisure and tourism industry in developing strategies and actions to manage constantly changing business environments. To do this, he uses his expertise in transition management, resilience, and adaptive capacity building. Stefan completed his PhD dissertation at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on the development, strategic (spatial) planning, and governance issues related to spaces and places transitioning to become (smart) destinations for tourism and leisure. In addition, Stefan also teaches within the master’s program International Leisure Tourism and Events Management (MILTEM) at NHL Stenden University.
Stefan Hartman contributed to these projects
Smart Growth
Guideline “Space for Recreation & Tourism”
Conscious Destination Agenda
Tourism information for the future
Acquisition of holiday parks
Polar Tourism Adapt: Adaptation pathways through knowledge co-production to anticipate Antarctica’s uncertain tourism futures
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Stefan Hartman wrote these blogs
Wadden gastronomy brings green and culinary tourists to the Wadden Sea area
26 MarchThe Waddenfonds has given the green light for the program 'Wadden Gastronomy Enhances World Heritage Experience'. Together with Visit Wadden, Stichting Waddengroep, our colleagues from NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and a network of around 300 green entrepreneurs, we use our knowledge to put Wadden gastronomy on the map over the next five years. With this we want to create a culinary Wadden Sea tradition and stimulate green-conscious and culinary tourism to the Wadden Sea World Heritage, islands and coastal strip in North Holland, Friesland and Groningen.
Restart tourism: bounce back or bounce forward?
08 February2021 might be the year where we see the first signs of travel and tourism’s recovery. A question that keeps many of us in the tourism industry busy is: “How will the restart of tourism and travel look like?” What people often see as a desirable option fits in with understanding of “Build Back Better”: sustainable, responsible and/or regenerative tourism.
Destination resilience in times of COVID-19 coronavirus
06 AprilThe world is witnessing an unprecedented situation with the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Destination resilience is receiving increasing attention and will be(come) a key topic in debates as it deals with resistance, recovery and transformation in the context of external, autonomous shocks and stresses. The COVID-19 outbreak is one of those shocks and has huge impacts on destinations.
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