Tourism in Peripheries

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ISBN: 9781845931773 | 1845931777
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/12/2007

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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. Topics covered include tourism management, rights of access, tourism destination communities, tourism impacts and regional development. The book identifies the core obstacles facing tourism in peripheral regions and highlights that tourism development in peripheries is not any easy task.

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Tourism in peripheries : an introduction	p. 1
The difficult business of making pleasure peripheries prosperous : perspectives on space, place and environment	p. 3
North-South perspectives on tourism, regional development and peripheral areas	p. 19
Tourism and regional development issues	p. 39
Tourism in peripheries : the role of tourism in regional development in Northern Finland	p. 41
Organizing tourism development in peripheral areas : the case of the subarctic project in Northern Sweden	p. 53
The impact of tourism on the local supply structure of goods and services in peripheral areas : the example of Northern Sweden	p. 69
Tourism development and the rural labour market in Sweden, 1960-1999	p. 85
Challenges to peripheral area tourism	p. 107
The vulnerability of peripheral tourism : the rapid disenchantment of peripheral attraction	p. 109
'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	p. 124
Access, tourism and democracy : a conceptual framework and the non-establishment of a proposed national park in Sweden	p. 141
Visitor management in protected areas of the periphery : experiences from both ends of the world	p. 154
Tourism opportunities	p. 175
Wind farms as possible tourist attractions	p. 177
Sporting events as tourist attractions in Canada's northern periphery	p. 190
Future perspectives	p. 203
Tourism research in Greenland	p. 205
Epilogue/prologue	p. 220
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