Tuuli Pulkkinen

Tuuli Pulkkinen serves as a Project and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland's Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, embedded within the Tourism Business research group. Her dual role combines active doctoral studies with project-based research, focusing on tourism business innovation and academic development through practical industry engagement.

Her research centers on inclusive tourism frameworks and experiential service design, with specialized emphasis on gender and sexual minority identities in tourism contexts forming the core of her dissertation. She investigates storytelling mechanisms and service inclusivity to create accessible tourism experiences for marginalized groups, particularly rainbow individuals, while integrating business studies principles with social equity perspectives.

Recent publications (2023-2024) reveal two dominant research trajectories: cultural heritage tourism (examining Kalevala mythology's appeal to East Asian markets) and migration policy innovation (addressing highly skilled immigrant integration in Finland). Her interdisciplinary work bridges tourism business, migration studies, and policy analysis, yielding evidence-based recommendations for destination marketing and labor market inclusion.

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Pulkkinen actively contributes to externally funded research initiatives including the concluded Voyage to mythology - Kalevala project (2020-2022) analyzing Kalevala's cultural tourism potential for East Asian audiences, and the ongoing High-skilled Internationals (HIWE) project (2022-2024) developing bottom-up policy innovations for immigrant workforce integration. Her responsibilities encompass research design, data collection, policy brief development, and cross-sectoral knowledge transfer.

She operates within the Tourism Business research group, which drives interdisciplinary tourism scholarship focused on experiential services, inclusive business models, and sustainable destination development through industry-academia partnerships.