Search for dissertations about: "tourism in sweden"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the words tourism in sweden.
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1. Tourism Development in Peripheral Areas : Processes of Local Innovation and Change in Northern Sweden
Abstract : Tourism has reached almost all regions of the world and has had a notable growth in the peripheral regions of Europe. Attempts at tourism development in rural and peripheral areas have resulted in widely varying outcomes and have often been undertaken as a last resort by communities. READ MORE
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2. Second home tourism : The root to displacement in Sweden?
Abstract : During certain seasons, rural and peripheral locations with significant numbers of second homes become the destination for major traffic and commodity flows. The outcome of this seasonal flow can be somewhat problematic and cause conflicts. READ MORE
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3. Sami tourism in Northern Sweden : Supply, demand and interaction
Abstract : Indigenous tourism is an expansive sector in the growing tourism industry. The Sami people living in Sápmi in northern Europe have started to engage in tourism, particularly in view of the rationalised and modernised methods of reindeer herding. Sami tourism offers job opportunities and enables the spreading of information. READ MORE
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4. Guided tourism : the role of guidebooks in German tourist behaviour in Sweden
Abstract : Tourism is a spatial phenomenon. Tourist behaviour on-site is not only dependent on the destination itself, but also on the situation in other places, tourists’ spatial mobility and access to information. On the basis of this argument, the whole tourism system is taken into account in this thesis. READ MORE
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5. Tourism Development in Resource Peripheries : conflicting and Unifying Spaces in Northern Sweden
Abstract : The northern Swedish inland is a sparsely populated area with a historical dependence upon natural-resource extraction. Therefore, this region has traditionally been defined as a resource periphery for extractive purposes. However, the rise of tourism challenges this narrative by producing a pleasure periphery for touristic purposes. READ MORE