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- Lundmark, Linda, 1975-, et al.
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New issues in polar tourism : conclusion
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Ingår i: New issues in polar tourism. - Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. - 9789400758834 - 9789400758841 ; , s. 217-220
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the goal of this book was not to pursue a distinct research question but rather illustrate the multitude of thematic issues that are currently being investigated in the polar Norths, two topics: the governance of ecological resources, and the ways in which polar communities manage to create agency through various development strategies emerged throughout the book. In-order to illustrate this agency, the content of this book has been divided into three parts: Conceptualizing Polar Tourism and Polar Regions, Politics and the Environment and Business and Community Perspectives thus without a separation between Arctic and Antarctic research. In this concluding chapter a summary of the issues in polar tourism highlighted in this book is made and a comment on the current state of the research field is offered, with some suggestions for future research.
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- Müller, Dieter K., 1968-, et al.
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Introduction : new issues in Polar tourism
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Ingår i: New issues in Polar tourism. - Dordrecht : Springer. - 9789400758834 - 9789400758841 ; , s. 1-17
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the recent decade academic interest in polar tourism certainly reached a new peak. The reasons for this development are plentiful. An important reason is of course the growing numbers of tourists arriving in polar regions and the associated attempts of commercial and non-commercial stakeholders to attract even more tourists to polar destinations. This and other changes such as global climate change, imply new challenges and opportunities for polar regions warranting research on tourism in the area. This chapter introduces some of the themes discussed in the scientific literature; definition of polar regions, environmental dimensions, and business and community perspectives. Moreover, the chapter reviews some of the institutional changes occurring in polar tourism research. Finally the chapter provides an overview of the contributions to this research volume
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New issues in Polar tourism : communities, environments, politics
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- New Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places. The book arises from the recently-formed International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN), and documents the outcomes of its 2010 conference, held at Sweden's Abisko Scientific Research Station.Opening with a review of the early history of polar tourism, the book discusses reasons for the rise in traffic to more than 12 million visitors to the Arctic (2006) and some 40,000 to the Antarctic (2009-10). These causes include "last chance" tourism inspired by increased media coverage of climate change, easier access to remote areas due to the shortening ice-season and the pursuit of tourism by destination areas seeking economic and employment opportunities.In subsequent chapters, the editors and contributors introduce environmental politics and impacts, and draw attention to physical impacts of tourism, to conceptual ideas of polar wilderness and to practical political action. The third section of the book addresses communities and tourism in polar areas, discussing how businesses operate in polar environment with respect to climate change and how the tourism industry can both advance and threaten efforts to sustain delicate environments and communities.Coverage includes case studies examining indigenous peoples and tourism, a chapter speculating on the nature of winter tourism in n Sweden in the year 2040 and a concluding chapter which draws together the findings of the book.
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