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Dipping in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas
Dipping in to the North explores how changing mobility and migration is affecting the social, economic, cultural, and environmental characteristics of sparsely populated areas of northern Sweden (and places like it). It examines who lives in, works in, and visits the north; how and why this has chan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
New Issues in Polar Tourism
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... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Degrowth and Tourism: New Perspectives on Tourism Entrepreneurship, Destinations and Policy (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
The sustainability of tourism is increasingly under question given the challenges of overtourism, COVID-19 and the contribution of tourism to climate and environmental change. Degrowth and Tourism provides an original response to the central problem of growth in tourism, an imperative that has been ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Winter Tourism: Trends and Challenges
by Michael Hall • Murray B. Rutherford • Jerry Vaske • Umberto Martini • Linda Lundmark • Thomas Bausch • Mike Peters • Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer • Cameron Owens • Marius Mayer • Alison M. Gill • Emmanuelle George • Bruno Abegg • Raija Komppula • Coralie Achin • Emma Alegria • Wolfgang Arlt • Þorvardur Árnason • Mikolaj Bielanski • Dorothee Bohn • Philippe Bourdeau • Federica Buffa • Tatiana Chekalina • John Daigle • Cecilia De Bernardi • Sandra De Urioste-Stone • O. Cenk Demiroglu • Rainer Flaig • Peter Fredman • Barbara Haller Rupf • Joanna Hibner • Claudia Hödl • Lydia Horne • Leandra Jänicke • Hubert Job • Milosz Jodlowski • Hope Kohtala • Felix Kraus • Serena Lonardi • Markus Mailer • Luca Mariotti • Aubrey D. Miller • Nina Mostegl • Gero Nischik • Caroline Noblet • Joe Pavelka • Alexander Plaikner • Laura Rickard • Reto Rupf • Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir • Katrin Schillo • Johannes Schmid • Iain Stewart-Patterson • Magnus Strömgren • Karolina Taczanowska • Rainer Unger • Ilse Van Ipenburg • Johannes T. Welling • Tomas Zwijacz-KozicaWinter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019