(h-index 8, i-index 5, seit 2018)
Tskaltubo | Projektziele und Forschungsansatz (Georgien)
Das im Westen Georgiens in der Region Imeretien gelegene Tskaltubo verzeichnet seit etwa 2010 einen langsam zunehmenden Tourismus, den der georgische Staat durch internationale Partnerschaften anzuschieben versucht. Wegen der sowjetischen…
Ushguli | Projektziele und Forschungsansatz (Georgien)
Ushguli in Georgien ist das berühmteste der Bergdörfer Swanetiens. Der Ortsteil Tschaschaschi (ჩაჟაში, Chazhashi) ist seit 1996 Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes. Ein zunehmedner Tourismus ermöglicht einerseits, dass das Bergbauernleben Swanetiens erhalten…
The Latali Records
Svaneti is searching for a sustainable future in a continuous field of friction between an emerging local economy and the region‘s rich traditions. Against the background of the region’s emerging…
Latali-Project | Envisioning Svaneti
Envisioning a prosperous coexistence of cultural heritage, tourism and environment in the village community of Latali (Georgia) Svaneti benefited enormously from the tourist boom in the 2010s with the highest…
Crises around Concepts of Hospitality in the Mountainous Region of Svaneti in the North of Georgia
Some results of a study on the impact of online comments on the development of tourism in Ushguli Great hopes for sustainable tourism are intimately connected with accommodation in permanently…
On the influence of mountain and heritage tourism in Georgia: the exemplary case of Ushguli
Journal article, full text available, Dezember 2019, Erdkunde Summary This study centres on the village community of Ushguli, located in the Upper Svaneti region in the north of Georgia. After…
Academic articles (selection)
Stefan Applis (2024, im Erscheinen). Die georgische Hauptstadt wird aus Perspektive des touristischen Blicks (tourist gaze) neu erschaffen. Geographische Rundschau x-24, x-x.
Stefan Applis (2022). Auswanderung unter Vorbehalt: Russinnen und Russen in Georgien. Die Zuspitzung der unsicheren Lage des Lande in Folge des Ukrainekriegs. Geographische Rundschau 12-22, 44-49.
Stefan Applis (2022). Crises around Concepts of Hospitality in the Mountainous Region of Svaneti in the North of Georgia. Tourism and Hospitality 3, no. 2: 416-434. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp3020027
Stefan Applis (2019). On the influence of mountain and heritage tourism in Georgia: the exemplary case of Ushguli. Erdkunde 73(4), 259-275 https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2019.04.02
Stefan Applis & Nino Tserediani (2020). Poorism and taking the waters: a praxeological analysis of educational work in the context of tourism in the spa town of Tsqaltubo, Georgia, Ethnography and Education, 15:3, 316-333, DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2020.1722953
Journalistic pieces, short articles & analyses
Stefan Applis (2022). Tourismus-Boom in Georgien. Zur Kapitalisierung des kulturellen Erbes am Beispiel der Bergregionen Swanetien und Tuschetien. Geographische Rundschau 10-2022, 54-55.
Stefan Applis (2022). Die Türme Swanetiens. Identität und Aushängeschild Georgiens. Ost-West. Europäische Perspektiven 23 (2022), Heft 4, 255-261.
Stefan Applis (2022). Tskaltubo: life as a perpetual state of waiting. Emptiness. May, 26, 2022.
Stefan Applis (2021). Anti-Semitism and Orientalism in German-language Travelogues of Turkestan. The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. May 2021.
Stefan Applis (2021). World Heritage tourism and the built space of Svaneti, Georgia. Peripheral histories. January 2021
Stefan Applis (2020). Цкалтубо: Жизнь в вечном ожидании. Tskaltubo: Life in a perpetual state of waiting. OC-Media. December 27, 2020
Stefan Applis & Shavkat Boltayev (2020). Mubinjon Tadzhiev – Central Asia’s “Fastest” Man Offers a Glimpse into Bukhara’s History. Oxus Society, November 25, 2020
Stefan Applis (2020): Fridon Nizharadze – Painter of the traumas of Svaneti and the world. Georgia Today, October 16 – 22, p. 11
Stefan Applis (2020): Svaneti – A Slogan of the Saakashvili Period Profoundly Changes the Architectural Heritage of the Region. Georgia Today, September 11 – 17, p. 9.
Stefan Applis (2020). Perspectives | The threats to Georgia’s world heritage sites. Should locals be expected to forgo modernity to satisfy the demands of UNESCO and the global tourism industry? Eurasianet. August 14, 2020.
Stefan Applis (2020). New Perspectives for Tskaltubo. Caucasus Edition, July 1, 2020
Stefan Applis (2018). Perspectives | Tourism sustains, and threatens, Georgia’s highland heritage. Tales of an authentic society living at the edge of time fail to account for higher living standards in the Soviet heyday. Eurasianet. November 2, 2018
Geographien | doing geography 