Tourism, Mobilities, and Development in Sparsely Populated Areas

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung This book provides a framework for understanding how human mobilities associated with tourism (mobile tourists, workers, residents and others) contribute to the economic and social development of destinations in sparsely populated or ‘remote’ areas, It was published as a special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Tourism and Mobilities in Sparsely Populated Areas: Towards a Framework and Research Agenda 2. New Rural Residents or Working Tourists? Place Attachment of Mobile Tourism Workers in Finnish Lapland and Northern Norway 3. Seasonal Workers in Swedish and Norwegian Ski Resorts – Potential In-migrants? 4. Tourism Employment and Creative In-migrants 5. International Migration, Self-employment and Restructuring through Tourism in Sparsely Populated Areas 6. Moving Places: Multiple Temporalities of a Peripheral Tourism Destination 7. Mobilities and Path Dependence: Challenges for Tourism and “Attractive” Industry Development in a Remote Company Town

Product details

• Authors: Doris (Umea University Carson, Doris Carson Carson
• Assisted by: Dean Carson (Editor), Doris Carson (Editor), Carson Dean (Editor), Carson Doris (Editor), Linda Lundmark (Editor), Lundmark Linda (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138300132
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30013-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries