North Hunt

Mission Impossible? Sustainable Hunting Tourism

November 17.-18. 2010 at Rovaniemi, Finland.

A link to the conference pictures

Wednesday November 17th
Arktikum

Chair:    Dr. Sami Kurki, University of Helsinki, Ruralia Institute, Finland

09.00 – 09.15   Opening of the conference
Dr. Sami Kurki, Professor, University of Helsinki, Ruralia Institute, Finland

09.15 – 09.30   Opening speech
Dr. Pentti Lähteenoja, Director General, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland

09.30 – 10.15 Can hunting tourism be sustainable?   – Opportunities and risks in a sensitive sector
Mr. Kai Wollscheid, former Director General of International Council for Game and Wildlife Concervation (CIC)

10.15 – 11.00 International hunting tourism – what are international agents and customers looking for?
Mr. Rupert Ellis, The Hunting Agency, United Kingdom

11.00 – 11.30 International marketing of tourism products – case: The Finnish Tourist Board
Ms. Anne Lind, Director Trade Relations, The Finnish Tourist Board, Finland

11.30 – 12.00  A Finnish hunting tourist – what does he look for?
Mr. Ere Grenfors, Education Manager, Finnish Hunters' Association, Finland

13.00 – 13.30 Survival of the fittest outfitters - meeting the challenges associated with hunting tourism entrepreneurship in northern Sweden
Dr. Fredrik Dahl, Researcher, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Hunting tourism entrepreneurship in northern Europe

13.30 – 13.55  Case 1: Nord Guide, Sweden 
Mr. Tommy Holmberg, CEO, Guide and Sales Director

13.55 – 14.20  Case 2: Hunting estate Ainola, Finland 
Mr. John Wedde, Operational Manager, Hunting estate Ainola 

15.00 – 15.25  Case 3: Mjóeyri, Iceland
Mr. Sævar Guðjónsson, Entrepreneur, Mjóeyri

15.25 – 15.50 Case 4: Scotland 
 Mr. Frank Law, Sporting Manager, Strathspey Estate

15.50 – 16.20 The importance of networking in the hunting tourism sector in Swedish Lapland
Mr. Håkan Gyllbring, Hunting Tourism Adviser, Rural Business Development Ltd, Sweden

Thursday, November 18th
Arktikum

Chair:  Dr. Göran Sjöberg,  Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

09.30 – 09.45  Opening of the day

09.45 – 11.00 Keynote lecture: Public attitudes to tourism and recreation based hunting: implications for operators and DMOs
Dr. Michael Campbell, Professor, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, Canada

11.00 – 11.30 Challenges in the management of hunting rights and hunting possibilities in North Finland
Dr. Jukka Bisi, Senior Advisor, Development of Game and Fisheries Metsähallitus, Finland

11.30 –12.00 Hunting tourism as a tool for biodiversity conservation – a European perspective
Dr. Yves Lecocq, Secretary General, Federation of Associations for Hunting & Conservation of the EU (FACE) 

13.00 – 13.30 Expert judgments of game development - precision and usefulness in local game management
Dr. Fredrik Dahl, Researcher, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

14.00 – 14.30 Challenges to the social reproduction of moose hunting clubs and barriers to commercial hunting
Dr. Ashley Selby, Senior Researcher, The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland

14.30 – 15.30  Approaches to the economics of hunting tourism
• Economic impact of hunting in rural Iceland
Mr. Jón Thorvaldur Heiðarsson, Researcher, University of Akureyri
Research Centre, Iceland

• Regional economic role of the small game based hunting tourism in Lapland
Ms. Anne Matilainen, Project Manager, University of Helsinki, Ruralia Institute, Finland

• Styles of shooting management and the local and regional economic impacts of sport shooting in the Scottish Highlands
Ms. Karen Mustin, Researcher, Macaulay Institute, Scotland
15.30 – 16.00   Conclusions and closing of the conference

Future of Hunting in Northern Europe

NORTH HUNT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, 4-5 MAY, 2010, MACDONALD AVIEMORE HIGHLAND RESORT, AVIEMORE, SCOTLAND

PROGRAMME

Presentation abstracts
 
TUESDAY 4 MAY
10:30 -11:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
11:00 – 13:00 HUNTING TOURISM: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY (Chair: Sami Kurki)
11:00 - 11:20 Scott Newey & Sami Kurki - Welcome & Introduction to North Hunt
11:20 - 11:40David Watts (Aberdeen University) - "North Hunt:  Cross-Country Comparison on Social Sustainability Findings"
11:40 - 12:00 Fredrik Dahl (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) - "eXpert monitoring models of game species - where X is the unknown factor"
12:00 - 12:20 Susanna Keskinarkaus (Ruralia Institute): "Is the demand for hunting increasing or decreasing?  The effect of demographic changes on the mumber of local hunters"
12:20 - 12:40 Steinar Beck (The Environment Agency of Iceland)
12:40 - 13:00 Justin Irvine (The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute) - "HUNTing for sustainability"

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 17:00 NATURAL HERITAGE & HUNTING (Chair:  Steve Redpath)
14:00 - 14:25 Adam Smith (The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) - "Glorious grouse, biodiversity benefits, and economic enhancement"
14:25 - 14:50 Fiona Newcombe & Linzi Seivwright (The Deer Commission for Scotland) - "Developing hunting tourism in Scotland"
14:50 - 15:15 Will Boyd-Wallis (The Cairngorms National Park Authority) - "Supporting sustainable deer management in the Cairngorms National Park"

15:15 - 15:45 TEA/COFFEE

15:45 - 16:10 Christopher Hewitt (Mar Lodge Estate, National Trust for Scotland) - "Mar Logde Estate - A case of discord or harmony with conservation on a Highland sporting estate?"
16:10 - 16:35 Gauti Jóhannesson (Adventura ehf) - "Developing reindeer hunting: From recreation to hunting tourism"
16:35 - 17:00 Panel (all above) Question & Answer session

18:00 – 20:00 GUEST SPEAKER & BUFFET DINNER
18:00 - 18:45 Mark Hamblin "tooth & claw"
18:45 - 20:00 Buffet Dinner 
 
WEDNESDAY 5 MAY
09:00 – 12:30 HUNTING TOURISM: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES (Chair: tbc)
09:00 - 09:30 Håkan Gyllbring (Rural Business Development Ltd., Sweden) - "Opportunities and challenges for hutning tourism in Northern Europe"
09:30 - 12:00 Breakout Group; 3 topics, 3 groups, each group spends 20 minutes on each topic

Topic 1:  Monitoring game populations and bag to enhance ecological, social and economic sustaionability (Scott Newey, Fredrik Dahl, Sami Kurki)

Topic 2:  Branding and Ethics of 'North Hunt' (Håkan Gyllbring, Markus Muutola, Eyrún Bjarnadóttir)

Topic 3: Managing sustainability in hunting toursm companies - business challenges (Anne Matilainen, Susanna Keskinarkaus)

10:15 - 10:45 TEA/COFFEE

11:30 - 12:00 Reporting and Discussion, Summing up

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 End
Here is a diagram from developed during the seminar showing the dominating land use categories in the respective countries (in part, regions: Northern Sweden, and Scottish Highlands) and the emerging activities in each. 

Social Sustainability of Hunting Tourism in peripheral Areas - 28.-29. sept. 2009. 

At SLU in Umeå, Sweden

Tentative Programme

Facilitator: Anders Esselin, SLU

28 Sept, afternoon
Session 1:Social sustainability of hunting tourism in the Northern Periphery
12:00 Introduction to the project and the seminar – Sami Kurki, Ruralia Institute, Finland
12:30 National reports from the North Hunt project & Stakeholder feedback
12:30 Finland: Susanna Keskinarkaus, Ruralia Institute
1310Sweden: Fredrik Dahl, SLU
13:50 Coffee, tea
14:20 Iceland:Eyrún J. Bjarnadóttir, ITRC and Hjördís Sigursteinsdóttir, RHA, University of Akureyri
15:00 Scotland: Colin Hunter, University of Aberdeen
15:40-16:00 Summing up so far – contrasts and similarities - Colin Hunter, University of Aberdeen

Stakeholder panel:
Sævar Guðjónsson, entrepreneur, Iceland
Jukka Bisi, Metsähallitus, Finland
+ other stakeholders representatives

29 Sept
Session 2: Sustainability of hunting and hunting tourism.
08:30 Interpreting sustainability in a tourism context–Robert Pettersson,ETOUR, Mid-Sweden University
09:10 Harvesting samll game - is there a need for thresholds? Tomas Willebrand, Hedmark, University College, Norway
09:50 Swedish studies in hunting & hunting tourism – Göran Ericsson, SLU, Sweden
10:30  Coffee, tea

International outlooks:
11:00 Canada – John Hull, New Zealand Tourism Institute
11:40 Interplay between formal and informal rules on hunting.  Information about the EU FP7 project HUNTing for sustainability - Camilla Sanström, Umeå university, Sweden
Sustainable harvest - incorporating human decisions by  Nils Bunnefeld
12:20 Lunch

Session 3:  Hunting rights and feeling of ownership
13:20 Introduction – Setting the stage – Anne Matilainen, Ruralia Institute, Finland
13:40 Panel discussion – Participants:Elvar Árni Lund,Icelandic Hunting and Shooting Association;Tommy Holmberg, NordGuide, Sweden; Jukka Bisi, Metsähallitus, Finland;+ other stakeholder representatives
14:40 Coffee, tea

Session 4: Conclusion
15:10 Synthesis of national reports – Sami Kurki, Ruralia Institute, Finland
15:35 Final comment - Shawn Riley, SLU/Michigan State University
16:00 Closing of conference

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