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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: ROURA, Ricardo
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:French
Published: Presses de l'Université du Québec 2012
Subjects:
geo
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/teoros/402