About the Book
Using case studies from North America, Scandinavia, Scotland, New Zealand and the Polar Regions this book explores the use of tourism as a vehicle for regional development in peripheral areas. Topics covered include tourism management, rights of access, tourism destination communities, tourism impacts and regional development. The book identifies the core obstacles facing tourism in peripheral regions and highlights that tourism development in peripheries is not any easy task.
Table of Contents:
i: Preface Part I: Tourism in Peripheries - An Introduction 1: The Difficult Business of Making Pleasure Peripheries Prosperous: Perspectives on Space, Place and Environment, D K Müller and B Jansson 2: North-South Perspectives on Tourism, Regional Development and Peripheral Areas, C M Hall, University of Otago, New Zealand Part II: Tourism and Regional Development Issues 3: Tourism in Peripheries: The Role of Tourism in Regional Development in Northern Finland, J Saarinen, Universitiy of Oulu, Finland 4: Organising Tourism Development in Peripheral Areas: The Case of the Case of the SUBARCTIC Network in Northern Sweden, M Zillinger, Umeå University, Sweden 5: The Impact of Tourism on the Local Structure of Supply with Goods and Services in Peripheral Areas - The Example of Northern Sweden, G Löffler 6: Tourism Development and the Rural Labor Market in Sweden, 1960-1999, D K Müller and P Ulrich, Umeå University, Sweden Part III: Challenges to Peripheral Area Tourism 7: The Vulnerability of Peripheral Tourism: The Rapid Disenchantment of Peripheral Attraction, W Irvine and A R Anderson, Robert Gordon University, UK 8: ""If that's a Moose, I'd Hate to See a Rat!"" Visitors' Perspectives on Naturalness and their Consequences for Ecological Integrity in Peripheral Natural Areas of New Zealand, B Lovelock, University of Otago, New Zealand 9: Access, Tourism and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework and the Non-Establishment of a Proposed National Park in Sweden, K Sandell, Karlstad University, Sweden 10: Visitor Management in Protected Areas of the Periphery: Experiences from Both Ends of the World, P Mason, University of Luton, UK Part IV: Tourism Opportunities 11: Wind Farms as Possible Tourist Attractions, R Nash, A Martin, D Carney and K Krishnan, Robert Gordon University, UK 12: Sport Events as Tourist Attractions in Canada's Northern Periphery, T Hinch and S de la Barre, University of de la Barre Part V: Future Perspectives 13: Tourism Research in Greenland, B C Kaae, Danish Center for Forest, Landscaping and Planning, DenmarkEpiloge/Prologue, B Jansson and D K Müller
About the Author :
Prof. Dieter K. Müller holds a PhD from Umeå University and is now employed as professor. Currently, he is Deputy Vice-chancellor with special responsibility for research, research education and outreach within the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Dieter Müller has research interests with respect to tourism and regional development, mobility and tourism in peripheral areas. His research interests specifically include almost all aspects of second homes and second home related mobility, Sami tourism, nature-based tourism, tourism labor markets, regional development and rural change particularly in Northern peripheries and Polar areas. He has been the chair of International Geographical Union's Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change (2012-20) and is a member of the International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN). He has previously been selected for American Association of Geographers Roy Wolfe Award for outstanding contributions to the field presented by the Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group (2018). Currently Dieter Müller serves on the editorial board of Current Issues in Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Matkailututkimus - The Finnish Journal of Tourism Research and the Croatian Geographical Bulletin.
