Tourism and Change in Polar Regions : Climate, Environments and Experiences

Saarinen, Jarkko, Hall, C. Michael

ISBN 10: 0415489997 / ISBN 13: 9780415489997

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Group, 2010

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Tourism is seen as one of the few economic opportunities in these regions but at the same time the polar regions are being opened up to tourism development they are being affected by a number of new factors that are interconnected to travel and tourism: climate change; landscape and species loss; increasing interest in energy resources and minerals; social changes in indigenous societies and a new polar geopolitics all bring into question the sustainability of polar regions and the place of tourism within them.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Michael Hall is Professor, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor, Baltic Business School, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism he has published widely in tourism and mobility, gastronomy and environmental history.

Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include tourism development and its impacts and sustainability in peripheries. He is co-author of the book Nordic Tourism (2009), with C. Michael Hall and Dieter Muller.

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Titel: Tourism and Change in Polar Regions : ...
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 0th Edition.