Table of Contents

1 Nordic Tourism: Introduction to Key Concepts 2 Tourism Marketing 3 Nordic Tourism Governance and Planning Issues 4 Urban Tourism 5 Rural Tourism: Tourism as the Last Resort? 6 Nature-Based Tourism In Northern Wildernesses: Changing Meanings and Uses of Wild Landscapes 7 Coastal, Marine and Ocean Tourism 8 Second Homes in the Nordic Countries 9 Culture and Tourism 10 Winter Tourism: Changing 'Snow Business' 11 The Future of Nordic Tourism - Regional and Environmental Change

About the Author

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. Muller is Professor of Social and Economic Geography at Umea 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.

Reviews

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.Erika Andersson Cederholm, Department of Service Management, Lund University, Sweden