New Issues in Polar Tourism: Communities, Environments, Politics

ISBN-13: 9789400758834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 226 str.

Dieter K. M. Ller; Linda Lundmark; Raynald H. Lemelin

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1.         Introduction: New Issues in Polar Tourism

Dieter K. Müller*, Linda Lundmark & Raynald H. Lemelin

2.         Looking Back, Venturing Forward: Challenges For Academia, Community and Industry in Polar Tourism Research

Patrick T. Maher*

3.         What is Arctic Tourism, and Who Should Define It?

Arvid Viken*

4.         Narrative Frameworks of Consideration: Horizontal and Vertical Approaches to Conceptualising the Sub-Antarctic

Eric J. Shelton*

5.         Reaching Consensus on Antarctic Tourism Regulation

Kees Bastmeijer & Machiel Lamers*

6.         The Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessments on Visitor Activity in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica

Tanya A. O’Neill*, Megan R. Balks & Jerónimo López-Martínez

7.         German Tourism Activities in the Antarctic Area – A Governmental Perspective

Manuela Krakau & Heike Herata*

8.         The Wild North – Network Cooperation for Sustainable Tourism in a Fragile Marine Environment in the Arctic Region

Sandra Magdalena Granquist & Per Åke Nilsson*

9.         Tourism Resolving Crisis? Exploring Tourism Development in Iceland in the Wake of Economic Recession

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson* & Edward H. Huijbens

10.       A (Ski) Trip into the Future - Climate Change and Winter Tourism in Polar Sweden in 2040

Patrick Brouder & Linda Lundmark*

11.       Conflicting Discourses in Tourism Development - A Case of Kilpisjärvi Village, Finnish Lapland

Tuukka Mäkitie & Anna-Liisa Ylisirniö*

12.       Will 'Free Entry into the Forest' Remain? Argumentation Analysis of Finnish and Swedish Discussions on Everyman's Rights

Seija Tuulentie* & Outi Rantala

13.       National Parks for Tourism Development in Sub-Arctic Areas – Curse or Blessing? The Case of a Proposed National Park in Northern Sweden

Dieter K. Müller*

14.       Indigenous People: Discussing the Forgotten Dimension of Dark Tourism and Battlefield Tourism

Raynald H. Lemelin*, Anna Thompson-Carr, Margaret Johnston, Emma Stewart & Jackie Dawson

15.       New Issues in Polar Tourism: Conclusion

Linda Lundmark, Raynald H. Lemelin & Dieter K. Müller*

Index

Blurb

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.