Dr Alöna Roitershtein's Outputs (6)

Coastal community voices: strategic planning for sustainable destination development in a small cold-water archipelago. (2025)
Journal Article
ROITERSHTEIN, A. and IRONSIDE, R. [2025]. Coastal community voices: strategic planning for sustainable destination development in a small cold-water archipelago. Scandinavian journal of hospitality and tourism [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2025.2499266

Orkney Islands is a popular cold-water archipelago destination for cruise tourism and other marine and coastal tourism activities, where visitor economy plays a key part in the economic development of the islands. However, Orkney's coastal communitie... Read More about Coastal community voices: strategic planning for sustainable destination development in a small cold-water archipelago..

Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IRONSIDE, R. and ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2024. Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum. Presented at the Roots revived conference: memory, legacy, heritage and tourism, 17 October 2024, Edinburgh, UK.

Prison museums have become an increasingly popular tourist attraction. Presenting visitors with stories and exhibits pertaining to countries' penal history, they engage with difficult and often dissonant heritage. Peterhead Prison Museum ceased opera... Read More about Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum..

Virtual exchange (COIL): shaping the tourism workforce of the future. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HARBERT, S. and ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2024. Virtual exchange (COIL): shaping the tourism workforce of the future. Presented at the 32nd Nordic symposium on tourism and hospitality research, 18-20 September 2024, Stavanger, Norway.

Significant and rapid changes in the world's climate, technology and geopolitics has created a new environment for the tourism industry, and for those that rely on it for their livelihoods. These changes create a demand for globally competent, cultur... Read More about Virtual exchange (COIL): shaping the tourism workforce of the future..

Indigenous consultancy and collaborative online international learning: thematic network on collaborative online international learning and biodiversity education across the Arctic Circle (COIL@UArctic). (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CRAWFORD, I. 2024. Indigenous consultancy and collaborative online international learning: thematic network on collaborative online international learning and biodiversity education across the Arctic Circle (COIL@UArctic). Presented at the 2024 Arctic congress, 29 May - 3 June 2024, Bodø, Norway.

COIL is part of the emerging field of Globally Networked Learning or Virtual Exchange, which involves educational initiatives using technology to facilitate cost-effective communication and collaboration across cultures. This type of experiential le... Read More about Indigenous consultancy and collaborative online international learning: thematic network on collaborative online international learning and biodiversity education across the Arctic Circle (COIL@UArctic)..

Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands. (2024)
Thesis
ROITERSHTEIN, O. 2024. Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2344221

This study proposes a method for understanding local contextual circumstances and their effect on tourism-related sustainability needs. Based on this understanding, it offers a Place-based Strategy Evaluation Framework (PSEF), which can recognise whe... Read More about Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands..

Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2022. Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands. Presented at the 30th Nordic symposium on tourism and hospitality research: participatory approaches to development for desirable tourism futures, 27-29 September 2022, Porvoo, Finland.

Comprehensive stakeholder engagement in tourism planning is vital for sustainable destination development, but many strategic plans fail to provide evidence of such engagement on a destination level. As a part of a wider doctoral research project, th... Read More about Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands..