Egil Ørjan Thorsen

Egil Ørjan Thorsen is 50 years old and he is since April 2020 project manager for sustainable tourism development for Troms og Finnmark County Municipality located in Vadsø, Finnmark. Current priorities are the recovery strategy for the tourism sector in the midst of Covid-19 impacts and creating synergies between stakeholders within local food, creative industry and tourism.

Previously Thorsen was the project manager on behalf the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and food collaborating with the Norwegian Public Road Administration establishing a food value chain cluster named “Taste of National tourist routes”. The focus was on reinforcing, developing and integrating the promotion of local and regional food and beverages with the tourism sector in partnership with businesses in the relevant value chains. The main thing was to generate real results in the form of heighten food quality, profitable business activities and beneficial partnerships along each route.