作者: Karen Davies

Professor Katrín Anna Lund is an anthropologist who has worked at the Department of Tourism and Geography, University of Iceland, for the past 10 years. Previously she has researched and lectured at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, University of Aberdeen and Queens University, Belfast. She has done research in Spain, Scotland and Iceland. Her research has focused on tourism, travel and the perception of landscape but landscape studies have been central in her work on travel and tourism with a special emphasis on walking and narratives. Recently she has been studying destination making in tourism with a special focus on Arctic peripheries as well as Northern Light tourism. Katrín is the co-editor, with Professor Karl Benediktsson, of Conversations with Landscape that was published by Ashgate 2010 and Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North, with Dr. Simone Abram, published by Palgrave Pivot. She has also published journal articles in a variety of journals, as well as book chapters.