Rethinking connectivity in Arctic tourism development
This paper explores tourism development in Greenland using connectivity as a prism to explore the emerging challenges and opportunities brought about by vast distances and limited and costly accessibility. We introduce the current tourism situation in Greenland in a context of broader development pa...
| Published in: | Annals of Tourism Research |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/737f44ac-71fa-4a81-b427-bb9beeebfd1c https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103705 |
| Summary: | This paper explores tourism development in Greenland using connectivity as a prism to explore the emerging challenges and opportunities brought about by vast distances and limited and costly accessibility. We introduce the current tourism situation in Greenland in a context of broader development patterns and currents in Arctic tourism. Based on interviews, workshops and policy analysis, we point to three pressing conversations in Greenlandic tourism: governance, tourism data and capacity. Drawing on the concepts of ‘islandness’ and (dis)connectivity, we suggest that Greenland is not one, but several, only partially connected destinations. We end up arguing for a greater need for sensitivity and tailoring in tourism policy making and for future initiatives to take geographical and ‘situational’ differences into account. |
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