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Record Nr.

UNINA9910626109703321

Titolo

Arctic tourism experiences : production, consumption and sustainability / / edited by Young-Sook Lee, Tourism & Northern Studies, Faculty of Sports, Tourism and Social Work, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, David B. Weaver , Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Australia , Nina K. Prebensen , University College of South East Norway and UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , [2017]

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

338.47918153

Soggetti

Sustainable tourism - Arctic regions

Tourism - Arctic regions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Arctic destinations and attractions as evolving peripheral settings for the production and consumption of peak tourism experiences / Young-Sook Lee, David B. Weaver and Nina K. Prebensen -- Experiencing the arctic in the past : French visitors to Finnmark in the late 1700s and early 1800s / Isabelle Guissard and Young-Sook Lee -- Roles of adventure guides in balancing perceptions of risk and safety / Arild Røkenes and Line Mathisen -- The central role of identity in the Arctic periphery / Sara Davoudi, Claes Högström and Bård Tronvoll -- Tourists and narration in the Arctic : the changing experience of museums / Johan Edelheim and Young-Sook Lee -- World heritage list = tourism attractiveness? / Kjell Olsen -- Degrees of peripherality in the production and consumption of leisure tourism in Greenland / David Weaver and Laura Lawton -- Northern lights experiences in the Arctic dark : old imaginaries and new tourism narratives / Stein Roar Mathisen -- Exploring the extreme Iditarod Trail in Alaska / Hans Anton Stubberud and Carsten Blom Ruud -- The Arctic tourism experience from an evolving Chinese perspective / Chuanzhong Tang,



Ming-Feng Huang and David Weaver -- Tourists' interpretations of a "feelgood in Lapland" holiday : a case study / Raija Komppula -- Negotiating Sami place and identity : do Scottish traditions help Sami to be more Sami? / Beate Bursta -- Emergence of experience production systems for mass tourism participation in peripheral regions : evidence from Arctic Scandinavia / Peter Fischer -- Factors of peripherality : whale watching in northern Norway / Giovanna Bertella -- Responsible fishing tourism in the Arctic / Nina Prebensen and Sølvi Lyngnes -- Long way up : powered two-wheeled journeys in northern peripheries / Carl Cater -- Experiences of marine adventurers in the Canadian Arctic / Margaret E. Johnston, Elsa De Souza and R. Harvey Lemelin -- Arctic tourism in Russia : attractions, experiences, challenges and potentials / Sergey Ilkevich, and Per Strömberg -- Tourism experiences of post-Soviet Arctic borderlands / Peter Haugseth and Urban Wråkberg -- Arctic tourism experiences : opportunities, challenges and future research directions for a changing periphery / Young-Sook Lee, David B. Weaver and Nina K. Prebensen.