‘Arctic’ tourism representations and the voices within

I. Idea & problem The matter and inherent problematic of simplified tourism representations poses an ongoing quest within tourism studies. Departing from the understanding that destinations compete among each other to attract tourists, multilayered meanings of peoples, places and cultures collap...

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Published in:Via Tourism Review
Main Author: Schilar, Hannelene
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Association Via@ 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/viatourism.6370
http://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/6370
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Summary:I. Idea & problem The matter and inherent problematic of simplified tourism representations poses an ongoing quest within tourism studies. Departing from the understanding that destinations compete among each other to attract tourists, multilayered meanings of peoples, places and cultures collapse into unified imageries. In consequence, this entails that constructing such representations there must be processes of selecting certain representations over others, thereby steering up questions of.