Research

The ScientificTourism project supports scientific tourism development by providing relevant data concerning scientific tourism demand and supply and the dispersion of scientific tourism knowledge. 

Visitor survey

The Research Centre Hornafjörður conducts an annual visitor survey among visitors of the Vatnajökull National Park. The main objective of the visitor survey is to collect relevant information about visitors´ motivations, behaviour and attitudes towards issues and phenomena related to scientific tourism. This information is available to develop new or improve existing scientific tourism products or design strategies to stimulate scientific tourism. Here you can find the survey report of the year 2021/22:

Survey report 2021/22

The picture shows the result of the survey. About 80% of respondents thought it was important or very important to learn about the area, its nature and changes due to climate changes.