NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Rudkevitch, Ashley
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: This research will allow for greater understanding of the impacts tourism currently has on Yellowknife, NT, whether they be positive or negative. By examining the subjective impressions and opinions of both locals and tourists, the researcher will be able to analyze how both groups interact with cultural heritage sites within Yellowknife. The ability to create a viable solution to protecting c...

Principal Investigator: Fliesser, Ulrike E
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014
Summary: This fieldwork will supplement previous secondary library and archival research on the way in which tourism is being presented as a growing opportunity for the Northwest Territories and how that will help to assess its importance in relation to changing resource development landscapes, Yellowknife’s role as a service and administrative center, and broader regional development plans. I believe that...

Principal Investigator: Leckie, Toban M
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The Principal Investigator intends to conduct interviews with Deline community members, community leaders, industry officials, and adventure tour operators. Through these interviews the Principal Investigator will determine the extent of consultation between the adventure tourism industry and the Deline community, what the barriers are to participation in the industry for Indigenous members of the...

Principal Investigator: Noakes, Jamie L
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The objectives of this study are to: examine conditions of the resource development leading to diamond tourism and existing conditions in the development of diamond tourism; identify the opportunities and constraints of diamond tourism in Yellowknife; describe the outcomes in the social economy that result from the development of diamond tourism. The researcher will initially be contacting betw...

Principal Investigator: Hinch, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The purpose of this study is to explore the involvement of aboriginal people in Canada's northern tourism economy along with the impacts and issues associated with this involvement. Interviews with the NWT Department of Economic Development and Tourism, various tourism associations, individual tourism operators and aboriginal organizations will be conducted. The study will focus on the socio-cul...

Principal Investigator: Stankiewicz, B.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will examine the production, marketing and consumption of Northern arts and crafts. Artisans and craftsmakers in Yellowknife, Iqaluit and Pangnirtung will be consulted. Markets for Northern arts and crafts (co-operatives, stores, art galleries) will be surveyed. Tourists in the North and other purchasers in the South will also be interviewed....

Principal Investigator: Tamm, Sabine
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The researcher will carry out a project to develop a framework for social impact studies of eco-tourism in the NWT by interviewing Federal and Territorial government officials, commercial outfitters and Chambers of Commerce representatives to obtain their views on the range of social impacts which can be properly attributed to eco-tourism....

Principal Investigator: Prentice, Sandy
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To develop, through field testing, a methodological approach to examine (a) resident's view of types of tourism, (b) resident's perceptions of their roles in tourism development and (c) the perceived effects of such development....