Tourism in Peripheries

Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Part I: Tourism in Peripheries: an Introduction......Page 11
1 The Difficult Business of Making Pleasure Peripheries Prosperous: Perspectives on Space, Place and Environment......Page 13
2 North–South Perspectives on Tourism, Regional Development and Peripheral Areas......Page 29
Part II: Tourism and Regional Development Issues......Page 49
3 Tourism in Peripheries: the Role of Tourism in Regional Development in Northern Finland......Page 51
4 Organizing Tourism Development in Peripheral Areas: the Case of the Subarctic Project in Northern Sweden......Page 63
5 The Impact of Tourism on the Local Supply Structure of Goods and Services in Peripheral Areas: the Example of Northern Sweden......Page 79
6 Tourism Development and the Rural Labour Market in Sweden, 1960–1999......Page 95
Part III: Challenges to Peripheral Area Tourism......Page 117
7 The Vulnerability of Peripheral Tourism: the Rapid Disenchantment of Peripheral Attraction......Page 119
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......Page 134
9 Access, Tourism and Democracy: a Conceptual Framework and the Non-establishment of a Proposed National Park in Sweden......Page 151
10 Visitor Management in Protected Areas of the Periphery: Experiences from Both Ends of the World......Page 164
Part IV: Tourism Opportunities......Page 185
11 Wind Farms as Possible Tourist Attractions......Page 187
12 Sporting Events as Tourist Attractions in Canada’s Northern Periphery......Page 200
Part V: Future Perspectives......Page 213
13 Tourism Research in Greenland......Page 215
14 Epilogue/Prologue......Page 230
D......Page 237
M......Page 238
S......Page 239
W......Page 240