Viktoriia Kiptenko




Viktoriia Kiptenko

POSITION
Associate Professor
Chair of Regional Studies and Tourism
Geography Faculty
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

WORK EXPERIENCE
1989-1992
Tourism services manager, guide, translator
“Intourbureau”, Kyiv (Ukraine)

1992-1994
Head of Geoinformation and Tourism laboratory
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)

1994-2001
Assistant
Chair of Regional Studies and Tourism,
Geography faculty
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)

2001 - resent
Associate Professor
Chair of Regional Studies and Tourism,
Geography faculty
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1989
University degree in Geography
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)

1997
CSc (PhD, Economic and Social Geography)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)

Sustainability and Development, Globalization and Glocalization, Tourism Policy and Planning

Research Fields:
Social Science & Humanities

Previous and Current Research

  • Indicator analysis of sustainable development in Ukraine

  • The role of recreation activities and tourism in the improvement of the quality of life of urban elderly people on the sustainable development grounds (2016-2018) integrated into research and innovation programme Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (Green and Gray in Europe: Elderly Living in Urban   Areas – GRAGE - No645706)

  • Spatial Anaysis of Tourism Development in Poltava, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zkarpattya regions (Academic Center of Tourism Development, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, 2010-2011)


Research poligons #.1-3 – the role of recreation activities and tourism in the improvement of the quality of life of urban elderly people, Kyiv, 2016-2018


Structural hierarchy of local SD indexes for different generations based on survey in Kyiv city parks.  


Greenery of Kyiv city

Elderly survey, 1161 respondents, Kyiv city, 2017




We currently study:

·        indicator-based approaches to exploring sustainability and development, framed by Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in particular;

·        sustainability criteria, practices, indicators’ systems and reporting in tourism;

·        experience of localization of international frameworks to SD geoinformational representation and policy-making

in order to design readable teaching framework and recommendations on approximation of SD and SDG monitoring indicator in Ukraine to international (including EU) practices.

Future Projects and Goals

  • Sustainability and Development

  • Glocalization

  • Geospatial Governance

Methodological and Technical Expertise

  • Geospatial analysis and governance
  • Conceptual and indicator analysis of sustainable development

  • Sustainable tourism monitoring and policy

  • Glocalization: contextual analysis of socio-spatial transformations

Selected Publications

Kiptenko V.K. (2019) From global to Local: Feasibility of the Indicator Analysis of the Sustainable Development in Ukraine// World Science 3(43). Vol.1., 36-39. DOI: 10.31435/rsglobal_ws/31032019/6403

 Viktoriia Kiptenko, Olena Motuzenko, Olesandr Dmytruk (2019) The role of recreation activities and tourism in the improvement of the quality of life of urban elderly people on the sustainable development grounds. 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2530538

 Kiptenko V. (2017) Globalization: the geographical nexus. Visnyk Kyivskogo natsionalnogo universytetu, Geografiya [Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Geography], 1-2 (66-67), 37-41 (in English, abstr. in Ukrainian). DOI: http://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2017.66.4

Pavlo Doan and Viktoriia Kiptenko (2017) The Geopolitical Trial of Tourism in Modern Ukraine in Tourism and Geopolitics: Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe. Ed.by Derek Hall. CABI International, 71-88. URL: https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781780647616/

Marta Malska, Mykhajlo Rutynskiy, Yuriy Zan’ko, Jurij Zinko, Olga Lyubitseva, Viktoriia Kiptenko (2017) Geography of Tourism of Ukraine in The Geography of Tourism of Central and Eastern European Countries. Ed.by Jerzy Wyrzykowski, Krzyshtof Widawski et.al. Second Edition. Wroclaw, Poland, Springer, 509-551. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_13

 Kiptenko, V., Doan P. (2015). Destination Ukraine: Tourism Litmus of the transition in Tourism in the Green Economy Ed. by Maharaj Vijay Reddy and Keith Wilkens. Routledge, UK, 210-224. URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/destination-ukraine-tourism-litmus-transition-green-economy-viktoriya-kiptenko-pavlo-doan/e/10.4324/9781315885681-22

 ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2147-9957

Contacts

Homepage: https://geo.knu.ua/en/departments/department-of-country-studies-and-tourism.html

viktoriia_kiptenko@knu.ua