Table of contents - Special Issue: The Future of Polar Tourism
Guest Editors: Patrick T. Maher
Digital Rovaniemi: contemporary and future arctic tourist experiences
Alix VarnajotThe purpose of this paper is to investigate tourists’ representations of the Arctic through the lens of the photo-sharing social network Instagram. The study focuses on the…
Collaborative configurations of tourism development: a Greenlandic example
Daniela ChimirriWhile tourism scholars have increasingly recognized the significance of collaboration as an essential element in tourism development, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical…
Sustainability in Ylläs: one focus, various interpretations
Miranda CornelisseStakeholders have divergent views concerning sustainability in the development of tourism in Ylläs. The danger of these differences is that it can result into a conflict that…
Cultural centres: a future for cultural Arctic tourism?
Elizabeth Ann CooperThe purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of cultural centres to be spaces that foster interaction between tourists and locals, and thereby meet the demands of new…
Countering “Arctification”: Dawson City’s “Sourtoe Cocktail”
Elizabeth Ann Cooper, Michelle Spinei, Alix VarnajotThe purpose of this paper is to focus on the Sourtoe Cocktail, a custom in Dawson City, Canada’s Yukon, in which participants drink a shot of alcohol with a dehydrated human toe…
“Everything changed!” – the ramification of the Second World War on the Canadian North
Raynald Harvey Lemelin, Michel S. Beaulieu, David RatzThe purpose of this paper is to retrace past developments that occurred in the Alaskan and Canadian North as of result of the Second World War and illustrate the ramifications of…
The last resort? Ski tourism and climate change in Arctic Sweden
Osman Cenk Demiroglu, Linda Lundmark, Jarkko Saarinen, Dieter K. MüllerThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the external and internal factors that support or challenge a possible transformation of Arctic Sweden into a major ski destination under a…
Arctic expedition cruise tourism and citizen science: a vision for the future of polar tourism
Audrey R. Taylor, Þórný Barðadóttir, Sarah Auffret, Annette Bombosch, Allison Lee Cusick, Edda Falk, Amanda LynnesThe purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework for using citizen science – defined as a data collection method through which non-professionals engage in…
ISSN:
2055-5911Online date, start – end:
2015Journal’s owner:
Stichting Stenden Hogeschool(opens new window)Open Access:
open accessEditors:
- Albert Postma
- Stefan Hartman
- Ian Yeoman