About the Book
Interest in ecotourism in Scandinavia has seen recent growth. Extended forests, rivers, and lakes allow for a great variety of nature-based activities, such as hiking, mushroom collecting, kayaking, snow mobiling and bird watching, making Scandinavia a unique region from a nature-based tourism perspective. Ecotourism in Scandinavia: Lessons in Theory and Practice is the first book to comprehensively describe, analyse and evaluate aspects of Scandinavian ecotourism and will appeal to researchers and students of ecotourism.
Table of Contents:
1: An introduction to ecotourism in Scandinavia , S Gössling, and J Hultman 2: Section I 3: Ecotourism in Danmark, B Kaae, Center for Skov, Landskab og planlægning, Denmark 4: Sweden: where holidays come naturally. Ecotourism development and labelling in Sweden, P Fredman, Mid Sweden University, Sweden, S Gössling, and J Hultman 5: Ecotourism in Norway – non-existence or co-existence? A Viken, Finnmark University College, Norway 6: Iceland. Nature-adventure-…eco?-island, S Gössling, and A Alkimou, 7: Section II 8: Ecotourism certification in Scandinavia, S Gössling 9: The role of nature in Swedish ecotourism, J Hultman, and E Andersson Cederholm, Lund University, Sweden 10: Ecotourism as experience-tourism, S Gössling 11: The right of public access: potentials and challenges for ecotourism, K Sandell, Karlstad University, Sweden 12: Swedish Mountain Tourism Patterns and Modeling Destination Attributes, P Fredman, and K Lindberg, Oregon State University, Sweden 13: Environmental concerns of Swedish ecotourists. An environmental-psychological perspective, S Wurzinger, Universität Wien, Austria 14: Rural development through ecotourism, N-O Nilsson, EKOSCANDICA, Sweden, and J Hultman 15: Eco-traveler or eco-site visitor? T Flognfeldt Jr, University College Lillehammer, Norway 16: Ecotourist’s choice of transport modes, J Folke, J Östrup, and S Gössling, University of Lund, Sweden 17: Ecotourism and indigenous people: positive and negative impacts of Sami tourism, R Pettersson 18: Hunting tourism as ecotourism – conflicts and opportunities, Y Gunnarsdotter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 19: Policy, planning and governance in ecotourism, M Hall, University of Otago, New Zealand
Review :
"There is a great deal of strong material in this volume, and for anyone involved in the details of ecotourism concepts and practice, the book will well repay careful study."--Annals of Tourism Research
