Tourism development, management and the creation and implementation of policies is focused on through a theoretical and methodological approach. An introduction to the ontological basis behind collaborative research and an analysis of empirical models for how collaborative knowledge creation can inform tourism design, management, and policy.

Carina Ren is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. She is interested in how tourism interferes with other fields of the social through cultural innovation and explores new ways in which tourism is developed, organised and valued. Her research often takes place in research collaborations with tourism organisations and industry, citizens and students.

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson is Professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism, University of Iceland. His recent research has been on destination dynamics and place making with a focus on the entanglement of nature and culture. This has involved studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and policy making. He is a co-editor of Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, materiality and multiplicity, published in 2012 with Routledge and Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development, published with Ashgate in 2015.

René van der Duim is Professor at the Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD on the relation between tourism and sustainable development making use of insights from actor-network theory. He has executed research and educational projects in countries like Thailand, Nepal, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Portugal and the Netherlands and is also chair of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS). He has co-edited 5 books and has published his work in journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Tourism Management.

1. Co-creation of tourism knowledge

Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, René van der Duim

2. Balancing values: Co-creation in and out of academia

René van der Duim, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren

3. Collaborative becoming. Exploring tourism knowledge collectives

Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

4. Making matter in the midst of things: Engaging with tourism imponderables through research

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Katrín Anna Lund, Carina Ren

5. Disruptive ethnography and knowledge co-creation

Peter Lugosi

6. Participatory landscape designing for tourism planning: The case of Murter Island, Croatia Marlies Brinkhuijsen, Irena Ateljevic, René van der Duim, Dion Koens, Luuk van den Berg

7. Bridge-builders, scouts and 'idiots'. Exploring topologies of tourism student collaboration Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren, Dejan Krizaj

8. Doing research on, for and with tourism organisations during innovation processes

Kirsti Mathiesen Hjemdahl, Tor Helge Aas

9. Engaging with wind shelters

Outi Rantala, Miia Mäkinen

10. Knowing the Aquatic Other: Unleashing Blackfish

Felicity Picken

11. Stories of Hope? Journeys in the Dark European Arctic

Britt Kramvig, Hilde Methi

12. Towards a collaborative manifesto. Configurations of tourism knowledge co-creation Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, René van der Duim