Tourism in the northern dimension (Some results of the Ninth International Congress on Arctic Social Sciences)

• Published in: Arctic and North
• Main Authors: Jani Karhu, Aleksandr Yu. Osipov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Northern Arctic Federal University 2017
• Subjects: ecotourism; Koli; Paanajärvi; Hannukainen; Svalbard; sustainable development; national park; Social Sciences; H; Arctic; Climate change; International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences; karelia*; Republic of Karelia; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2017.28.118; https://doaj.org/article/80274fc518b94ae7bb7754735ca33341

The article presents the summary of the Ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences. The authors focus on the key issues of tourism development in the Arctic and Subarctic regions, such as sustainability, involvement of local people and climate change. The conference reveals how research in the field of tourism is based on multidisciplinary approaches combining economics, sociology, history and meteorology. Another part of this review is dedicated to the definitions and nature of ecotourism, its development and history in the national parks of Finland and the Republic of Karelia. National parks Koli and Paanajärvi were taken as case studies of ecotourism development.