Nordic Tourism

Colin Michael Hall is PhD from the University of Western Australia and previous positions at the University of Canberra, University of New England, Massey University and the University of Otago. Currently co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism and Professor, University of Canterbury; Docent, University of Oulu; Visiting Professor, Linnaeus University; and Senior Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg.Dieter K. Müller is Professor of Social and Economic Geography at Umeå University, Sweden.Jarkko Saarinen is Professor at University of Oulu in Finland and University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability and tourism-community relations.

• 1 Nordic Tourism: Introduction to Key Concepts2 Tourism Marketing3 Nordic Tourism Governance and Planning Issues4 Urban Tourism5 Rural Tourism: Tourism as the Last Resort?6 Nature-Based Tourism In Northern Wildernesses: Changing Meanings and Uses of Wild Landscapes7 Coastal, Marine and Ocean Tourism8 Second Homes in the Nordic Countries9 Culture and Tourism10 Winter Tourism: Changing ‘Snow Business’11 The Future of Nordic Tourism – Regional and Environmental Change

With a fine balance between pedagogic accessibility and critical reflection, this comprehensive study of tourism in the Nordic countries introduces the reader to the phenomenon as well as the business and politics of tourism. The rich amount and variation of case studies provides fruitful insights into the Nordic conditions as well as important current issues in tourism in general.