Tourism in peripheries : perspectives from the far north and south / edited by Dieter Muller and Bruno Jansson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Dieter.

Jansson, Bruno.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Polar Regions.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford : Cabi, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using case studies from North America, Scandinavia, Scotland, New Zealand and the Polar Regions, this book explores the use of tourism as a vehicle for regional development in peripheral areas. It identifies the core obstacles facing tourism in peripheral regions and highlights that tourism development in peripheries is not any easy task.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I: Tourism in Peripheries: an Introduction; 1 The Difficult Business of Making Pleasure Peripheries Prosperous: Perspectives on Space, Place and Environment; 2 North-South Perspectives on Tourism, Regional Development and Peripheral Areas; Part II: Tourism and Regional Development Issues; 3 Tourism in Peripheries: the Role of Tourism in Regional Development in Northern Finland; 4 Organizing Tourism Development in Peripheral Areas: the Case of the Subarctic Project in Northern Sweden

5 The Impact of Tourism on the Local Supply Structure of Goods and Services in Peripheral Areas: the Example of Northern Sweden6 Tourism Development and the Rural Labour Market in Sweden, 1960-1999; Part III: Challenges to Peripheral Area Tourism; 7 The Vulnerability of Peripheral Tourism: the Rapid Disenchantment of Peripheral Attraction; 8 'If That's a Moose, I'd Hate to See a Rat!' Visitors' Perspectives on Naturalness and their Consequences for Ecological Integrity in Peripheral Natural Areas of New Zealand

9 Access, Tourism and Democracy: a Conceptual Framework and the Non-establishment of a Proposed National Park in Sweden10 Visitor Management in Protected Areas of the Periphery: Experiences from Both Ends of the World; Part IV: Tourism Opportunities; 11 Wind Farms as Possible Tourist Attractions; 12 Sporting Events as Tourist Attractions in Canada's Northern Periphery; Part V: Future Perspectives; 13 Tourism Research in Greenland; 14 Epilogue/Prologue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-73614-3

9786610736140

1-84593-179-3

OCLC:

437177199