The Polar Cultural Heritage as a Tourism Attraction : A Case Study of the Airship Mooring Mast at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

• Published in: Téoros
• Main Author: Roura, Ricardo
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Université du Québec à Montréal 2009
• Subjects: cultural heritage; Svalbard; Spitsbergen; polar tourism; tourism attractions; tourism narratives; Nobile; North Pole; Ny-Ålesund; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1024834ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1024834ar

This paper explores the use of narratives in the transformation of historic sites in the polar regions into attractions and consumable tourism products. The analysis is based on a case study of visitation to the airship mooring mast built at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, for the 1926 “Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nob...