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Dieter Müller

I am Deputy Vice-Chancellor of research and postgraduate education within the social sciences and humanities at Umeå University. I am also Professor of Social and Economic Geography.

Research qualifications: Docent

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Affiliation
Professor at Department of Geography Section: Geography
Location
Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 2& 3 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
Affiliation
Affiliated as other position at University Management Section: University Management Role: Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Location
Universitetsledningshuset plan 6, Universitetsområdet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I am Deputy Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for research, doctoral education, collaboration and internationalisation within the social sciences and humanities at Umeå University. I completed my doctoral degree at the same university and I am now employed as a Professor of Geography at Umeå University.

Research:
My research interest is in tourism and regional development, mobility and tourism in peripheral areas. My research specialises in almost all aspects of second homes and second-home mobility, Sami tourism, nature tourism, the tourism industry, regional development and rural change in particular in northern, peripheral areas and in the polar regions. A list of publications and bibliometric information is available on Google Scholar.

I am currently PI for the following research projects:

  • The Internationalization of Tourism Labor Markets in Rural Arctic Sweden (Familjen Kampradstiftelsen, 2025-2027)

Biography:
I was previously Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå University, and have a number of board assignments. I have been chair of the International Geographical Union Commission Tourism, Leisure and Global Change (2012-2020) and am a founding member of the International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN). In addition, I am chair of the boards of the Arctic Centre at Umeå University (Arcum), the Industrial Doctoral School for Research and Innovation, the Umeå School of Sport Sciences, and the Umeå University Library (UB). In 2009, I was appointed as a young, promising researcher at Umeå University. In 2018, I received the Roy Wolfe Award from the American Association of Geographers for outstanding contributions to tourism geography. In 2023, I was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class of Geosciences.

In addition to my academic assignments, I have also been a board member of the Foundation for the Promotion of Knowledge in Tourism, which is responsible for appointing the winner of the Swedish Tourist Award, as well as a member of the advisory scientific committee for the Rural Network. I am also a member of the scientific council for the Hospitality Industry Research and Development Fund (BFUF).

I am one of the editors for Geographies of Tourism and Global Change, a book series published by Springer, and resource editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.

I participate in the editorial board of the following journals:

  • Current Issues in Tourism
  • Tourism Geographies
  • Matkailututkimus – The Finnish Journal of Tourism Research
  • Tourism and Hospitality Management
  • Croatian Geographical Bulletin
  • Journal of Arctic Tourism
  • Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft

Academic qualifications:
Professor of Human Geography (2007)
Docent (2004)
Doctoral degree (1999)

Managment assignments:
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Umeå University (2016–)
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå University (2011–2016)

The Routledge handbook of tourism geographies, London: Routledge 2025 : 10-25
Müller, Dieter K.; Hall, C. Michael
The Routledge handbook of tourism geographies, London: Routledge 2025 : 421-426
Müller, Dieter K.; Wilson, Julie
London: Routledge 2025
Wilson, Julie; Müller, Dieter K.
The Routledge handbook of tourism geographies, London: Routledge 2025 : 3-9
Wilson, Julie; Müller, Dieter K.
The Wiley Blackwell companion to tourism, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 2024 : 444-456
Müller, Dieter K.
A research agenda for Arctic tourism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2024 : 157-168
Müller, Dieter K.
A research agenda for Arctic tourism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2024 : 199-207
Müller, Dieter K.; Rantala, Outi
Elgar Resesarch Agendas
Rantala, Outi; Müller, Dieter K.
A research agenda for Arctic tourism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2024 : 1-13
Rantala, Outi; Müller, Dieter K.
Second Homes and Climate Change, London and New York: Routledge 2023 : 39-55
Demiroglu, O. Cenk; Müller, Dieter K.; Back, Andreas; et al.
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Taylor & Francis 2023, Vol. 78, (3) : 217-226
Ismail, Sameera; Hoogendoorn, Gijsbert; Müller, Dieter K.
CERUM rapport, 78
Näsman, Mattias; Bergquist, Ann-Kristin; Björling, Nils; et al.
Journal of Heritage Tourism, Routledge 2023, Vol. 18, (2) : 184-201
Pettersson, Richard; Müller, Dieter K.
The international journal of tourism research, John Wiley & Sons 2022, Vol. 24, (4) : 536-549
Back, Andreas; Marjavaara, Roger; Müller, Dieter K.
Socio-spatial theory in nordic geography: intellectual histories and critical interventions, Cham: Springer 2022 : 169-190
Huijbens, Edward H.; Müller, Dieter K.
TemaNord, 2022:516
Jóhannesson, Gunnar Thór; Welling, Johannes; Müller, Dieter K.; et al.
Polar Geography, Taylor & Francis 2022, Vol. 45, (2) : 119-136
Marjavaara, Roger; Nilsson, Robert O.; Müller, Dieter K.
Tourism as a resource-based industry: based on the work of Sondre Svalastog, Wallingford: CABI Publishing 2022 : 76-88
Müller, Dieter K.
Geographische Rundschau, Braunschweig: Westermann Schulbuchverlag GmbH 2022, Vol. 74, (11) : 28-31
Müller, Dieter K.; Zillinger, Malin
Tourism as a resource-based industry: based on the work of Sondre Svalastog, Wallingford: CABI Publishing 2022 : 1-8
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Jenkins, Ian; Müller, Dieter K.
Oxfordshire: CABI Publishing 2022
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Müller, Dieter K.; Jenkins, Ian
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Routledge 2022, Vol. 22, (4-5) : 285-302
Walter, Ute; Müller, Dieter K.; Långvall, Annica
Journal of Tourismology, Istanbul Universitesi. Iktisat Fakultesi. Ekonometri 2021, Vol. 7, (1) : 1-27
Demiroglu, O. Cenk; Müller, Dieter K.
Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastrucutre, Affect, and Imagination, Tucson: University of Arizona Press 2021 : 91-122
Müller, Dieter K.
International residential mobilities: from lifestyle migrations to tourism gentrification, Cham: Springer Nature 2021 : 339-351
Müller, Dieter K.
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Routledge 2021, Vol. 21, (1) : 91-101
Müller, Dieter K.
Journal of Tourism Futures, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2020, Vol. 6, (1) : 91-101
Demiroglu, Osman Cenk; Lundmark, Linda; Saarinen, Jarkko; et al.
Dipping in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : 349-371
Lundmark, Linda; Müller, Dieter K.; Bohn, Dorothee
TemaNord, 2020:529
Müller, Dieter K.; Carson, Doris A.; de la Barre, Suzanne; et al.
Publications of the Multidimensional Tourism Institute
Müller, Dieter K.; de Bernardi, Cecilia
Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge 2020 : 103-117
Phommavong, Saithong; Müller, Dieter K.
Finnish Journal of Tourism Research, Vol. 16, (2) : 20-39
Pitkänen, Kati; Hannonen, Olga; Toso, Stefania; et al.
Tourism, Institute for Tourism 2019, Vol. 67, (3) : 239-252
Abbasian, Saeid; Müller, Dieter K.
The 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting, June 16-19, 2019, Trondheim, Norway
Demiroglu, O. Cenk; Lundmark, Linda; Müller, Dieter K.; et al.
AIRTH 2019,  Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable SuccessInnsbruck, Austria, September 12–14, 2019
Demiroglu, O. Cenk; Müller, Dieter K.
Tourism Geographies, Routledge 2019, Vol. 21, (2) : 261-283
Halkier, Henrik; Müller, Dieter K.; Goncharova, Natalia A.; et al.
Current Issues in Tourism, Routledge 2019, Vol. 22, (16) : 1958-1974
Larsson, Lars; Müller, Dieter
Turismen och resandets utmaningar, Stockholm: Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi 2019 : 53-77
Marjavaara, Roger; Müller, Dieter K.; Back, Andreas
Kampen om kunskap : akademi och praktik, Stockholm: Santérus Förlag 2019 : 95-102
Müller, Dieter K.
A Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2019 : xiii-xiv
Müller, Dieter K.
Elgar Research Agendas
Müller, Dieter K.
A research agenda for tourism geographies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2019 : 7-22
Müller, Dieter K.
Perspectives on rural tourism geographies: case studies from developed nations on the exotic, the fringe and the boring bits in between, Cham: Springer 2019 : 137-157
Müller, Dieter K.
A research agenda for tourism geographies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2019 : 60-70
Müller, Dieter K.
A research agenda for tourism geographies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2019 : 1-6
Müller, Dieter K.
Turismen och resandets utmaningar, Stockholm: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi 2019 : 135-154
Müller, Dieter K.
The politics of Arctic resources: change and continuity in the "Old North" of northern Europe, London: Routledge 2019 : 99-118
Müller, Dieter K.; Byström, Joakim; Stjernström, Olof; et al.
Exploring the opportunities and challenges of international students, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2019 : 99-124
Nilsson, Per A.; Westin, Kerstin; Müller, Dieter K.
Rovaniemi: Multidimensional Tourism Institute 2019
Olsen, Kjell O.; Abildgaard, Mette S.; Brattland, Camilla; et al.
TemaNord, 2019:528
Rantala, Outi; de la Barre, Suzanne; Granås, Brynhild; et al.