1st Edition

Tourism, Mobilities, and Development in Sparsely Populated Areas

Edited By Doris Carson, Dean Carson, Linda Lundmark Copyright 2016
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Tourism ‘mobilities’ are not restricted to the movement of tourists between places of origin and destinations. Particularly in more peripheral, remote, or sparsely populated destinations, workers and residents are also likely to be frequently moving between locations. Such destinations attract seasonal or temporary residents, sometimes with only loose ties to the tourism industry. These flows of... Read more

1. Tourism and Mobilities in Sparsely Populated Areas: Towards a Framework and Research Agenda  Doris Anna Carson, Dean Bradley Carson and Linda Lundmark

2. New Rural Residents or Working Tourists? Place Attachment of Mobile Tourism Workers in Finnish Lapland and Northern Norway  Seija Tuulentie and Bente Heimtun

3. Seasonal Workers in Swedish and Norwegian Ski Resorts – Potential In-migrants?  Cecilia Möller, Birgitta Ericsson and Kjell Overvåg

4. Tourism Employment and Creative In-migrants  Maria Thulemark, Mats Lundmark and Susanna Heldt-Cassel

5. International Migration, Self-employment and Restructuring through Tourism in Sparsely Populated Areas  Linda Lundmark, Marcus Ednarsson and Svante Karlsson

6. Moving Places: Multiple Temporalities of a Peripheral Tourism Destination  Katrín Anna Lund and Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

7. Mobilities and Path Dependence: Challenges for Tourism and “Attractive” Industry Development in a Remote Company Town  Doris Anna Carson and Dean Bradley Carson

Biography

Doris A. Carson is based in the Department of Geography and Economic History at Umeå University, Sweden. She has conducted research into how tourism sectors in peripheral destinations in Australia, Scotland, Canada, and Sweden can act as ‘systems of innovation’.

Dean B. Carson is a Professor based at the Arctic Research Centre, Umeå University, Sweden. He specialises in researching the impact of migration and mobility on the human geography of sparsely populated areas.

Linda Lundmark is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Economic History at Umeå University, Sweden. She has researched issues around tourism and labour migration, nature-based tourism, and post-productive change and regional development in rural Sweden.