Arctic Tourism in Times of Change

• Main Authors: Jóhannesson, Gunnar Thór, Welling, Johannes, Müller, Dieter K., Lundmark, Linda, Nilsson, Robert O., de la Barre, Suzanne, Granås, Brynhild, Kvidal-Røvik, Trine, Rantala, Outi, Tervo-Kankare, Kaarina, Maher, Patrick
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Copenhagen 2022
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Samhällsvetenskap; Arctic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-12353; https://doi.org/10.6027/temanord2022-516

The report presents findings from a workshop where researchers, students, tourism industry representatives, policy makers and entrepreneurs from the Arctic discussed the challenges of overtourism, the impact of COVID-19 and visions for restarting tourism. A key for sustainable management of tourism is that actors are aware that they are part of a wide ranging tourism system that affects how they can tackle ensuing crisis or challenges such as overtourism and undertourism. The COVID-19 hit tourism hard across the Arctic although there are also regional differences. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of the tourism product and opened a space for reconsidering tourism growth and the negative impacts of tourism on climate, biodiversity and communities. The report argues for the need to build tourism based on tourism-community collaboration.