Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic

Arvid Viken is Professor in Tourism, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. His research interests include destination development, indigenous tourism, tourism and community interaction.Dieter K. Müller is Professor in Social and Economic Geography, Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests focus on issues related to tourism and local and regional development in rural and peripheral areas in northern environments.

• PrefaceContributorsPart I: Conceptualizing Arctic Indigeneity and Tourism1. Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken: Indigenous Tourism in the Arctic2. Arvid Viken and Dieter K. Müller: Indigeneity and Indigenous Tourism3. E. Carina H. Keskitalo: Images of the Northern and “Arctic” In Tourism and Regional Literature4. Britt Kramvig: Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assembling Culture, Capital and IdentityPart II: Arctic Contestations; Resourcification of Indigenous Landscapes5. Dieter K. Müller and Fredrik Hoppstadius: Sami Tourism At The Crossroad: Globalization As Challenge For Business, Environment And Culture In Swedish Sápmi6. Yulian Konstantinov: Tourist Hegemonies of Outside Powers: The Case of Salmon-Fishing Safari-Camps in Territories of Traditional Land-Use (Kola Peninsula)7. Albina Pashkevich: Empowering Whom? Politics and Realities of Indigenous Tourism Development in the Russian Arctic8. Seija Tuulentie: Destination Development In The Middle Of the Sápmi: Whose Voice Is Heard and How?9. Karina M. Smed: Culture in Nature - Exploring the Role of ‘Culture’ In the Destination of Ilulissat, GreenlandPart III: Touristification of the Arctic – Indigenous Wrapping10. John S. Hull, Suzanne De La Barre and Patrick T. Maher: Peripheral Geographies Of Creativity: The Case For Indigenous Tourism And Community Economic Development In The Western Canadian Arctic11. Vladislava Vladimirova:  “Sport and Folklore”: Festivals as Sites of Indigenous Cultural Revitalization in Russia12. Gro B. Ween and Åge Riseth: Indigenous Hospitality and Tourism: Past Trajectories and New BeginningsPart IV: Tourism Negotiating Sami Traditions13. Kjell Olsen: What Does The Sieidi Do? Tourism as a Part of a Continued Tradition?14. Trude Fonneland: Indigenous Spirituality and the Staging of Sami Culture in Northern Scandinavia15. Gaute Svensson and Arvid Viken: Tourism, Nomadism and the Sami Verdde NexusPart V: Epilogue16. Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken: Towards a De-Essentializing of Indigenous Tourism?

The roles of indigenous peoples in tourism are complex, dynamic and politically sensitive all of which contribute to their worthiness as well as their challenge as subjects of academic discourse. Viken and Müller have done a masterful job of meeting these challenges in their edited volume Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic – a “must-read" for tourism students, stakeholders and scholars.