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This timely book critically explores and analyses the prospects and challenges that exist in tourism and community relations in different contexts, with a focus on island, rural and urban environments within Nordic tourism.
The book explores core topics from both positive and negative tourism development practices, including employment and income creation, diversification of local economy, well-being and quality of life, infrastructure and services support, revitalization of culture, cultural learning, and natural and cultural resource conservation. The volume utilises case studies and real-world examples from the Nordic context, which are good practices in community building, investments in social programs and infrastructure and economies, discussing potential implications and take-aways that can be transferred to other regions. The book delves into community perspectives beyond the ones of DMOs and the local community as service providers or objects of visitor experiences. It provides new insights into how the community-tourism relationships may change, and how community actors can be drivers of change as well as the complexities and ambiguities involved, with both positive and negative impacts of tourism, conflicting goals etc.
This volume will be valuable reading for researchers, academics and students interested in sustainable tourism.
Contents
'Section 1. Introduction. 1. Tourism and Communities: Relations, Impacts and Sustainability Needs. Section 2. Island Communities. 2. Local Community 'Schizophrenia': Negotiating Sustainable Tourism Development in a Nordic Islandic Destination. 3. Cases on Icelandic island Communities and Tourism: Grímsey and Hrísey. Section 3. Urban Communities. 4. Urban Destination Foodscapes: Developing Culinary Tourism through Clusters and Localhood in Copenhagen. 5. Community, Heritage and Tourism Development: Views from the Town of Visby, Sweden, by the Local Academia. 6. Cultural Revitalization in Helsinki: The Blurring Line between Locals and Tourists. Section 4. Communities as Planners and Entrepreneurs. 7. Tinkering Towards Self-determination in Nordic Cruise Communities: A Case Study of Local Tourism Firms in Northern Norway. 8. Entering the Edges: Tourism Routes through Rural Areas. 9. Policies, Laws and Practices Favouring Community Empowerment in Protected Areas: The Case Study of the Danish National Park Mols Bjerge. 10. Community Inclusion in Tourism Development: Community-based Entrepreneurship and Agency in Finnish Arctic Destinations. Section 5. Conclusions. 11. Conclusions and Prospects for Tourism and Community Studies in the Nordic region.
