| Description |
1 online resource (x, 230 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I: Tourism in Peripheries : An Introduction -- The Difficult Business of Making Pleasure Peripheries Prosperous: Perspectives on Space, Place and Environment / Dieter K. Müller and Bruno Jansson -- North-South Perspectives on Tourism, Regional Development and Peripheral Areas / C. Michael Hall -- -- Part II: Tourism and Regional Development Issues -- Tourism in Peripheries : The Role of Tourism in Regional Development in Northern Finland / Jarkko Saarinen -- Organising Tourism Development in Peripheral Areas : The Case of the SUBARCTIC Network in Northern Sweden / Malin Zillinger -- The Impact of Tourism on the Local Structure of Supply with Goods and Services in Peripheral Areas : The Example of Northern Sweden / Günter Löffler / Tourism Development and the Rural Labor Market in Sweden, 1960-1999 / Dieter K. Müller and Philip Ulrich -- -- Part III: Challenges to Peripheral Area Tourism -- The Vulnerability of Peripheral Tourism : The Rapid Disenchantment of Peripheral Attraction / Wilson Irvine and Alistair R Anderson -- "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 / Brent Lovelock -- Access, Tourism and Democracy : A Conceptual Framework and the Non-Establishment of a Proposed National Park in Sweden / Klas Sandell -- Visitor Management in Protected Areas of the Periphery : Experiences from Both Ends of the World / Peter Mason -- -- Part IV: Tourism Opportunities -- Wind Farms as Possible Tourist Attractions / Robert Nash [and others] -- Sport Events as Tourist Attractions in Canada's Northern Periphery / Tom Hinch and Suzanne de la Barre -- -- Part V: Future Perspectives -- Tourism Research in Greenland / Berit C. Kaae -- Epiloge/Prologue / Bruno Jansson and Dieter K. Müller |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Polar regions
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Tourism.
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Tourism
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Polar regions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Müller, Dieter K.
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Jansson, Bruno.
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| LC no. |
2006017275 |
| ISBN |
9781845931773 |
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1845931777 |
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9781845931797 |
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1845931793 |
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1280736143 |
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9781280736148 |
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9786610736140 |
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6610736146 |
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