Although European and international policy frameworks promote ethical and sustainable tourism, heritage and tourism governance remains fragmented, with sectors operating under different institutional structures and priorities. HERITOUR investigates how current collaborations function and how cross-sectoral policies can be developed within a democratic and regenerative governance model. The project focuses on hybridisation, sustainability, resilience, and democratisation, and provides interdisciplinary training for Doctoral Candidates.

HERITOUR is a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Stavanger, Middle East Technical University, University of Aruba, Mid Sweden University, and the University of Granada.

Successful Doctoral Candidates will be seconded at heritage and tourism organisations for the total duration of three months during the employment period.

A total of 10 PhD vacancies is available across the six universities. For more information, check the individual vacancy pages of the universities below.

Please note that each position has a different application deadline. In chronological order:

DC8, DC9 – EUR – Rotterdam, Netherlands: 19 April 2026

DC3, DC4 – METU – Ankara, Türkiye: 27 April 2026

DC10 – UA – Oranjestad, Aruba: 30 April 2026

DC1, DC2 – MIUN – Östersund, Sweden: 4 May 2026

DC5, DC6 – UiS – Stavanger, Norway: 4 May 2026

DC7 – UGR – Granada, Spain: 4 May 2026

For general questions about the project: heritour@eur.nl

For questions to individual vacancies, please consult the corresponding link.

Declaration of Honour can be downloaded from here.
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