Sami tourism in Northern Sweden : Supply, demand and interaction

• Main Author: Pettersson, Robert
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Kulturgeografi 2004
• Subjects: Social and economic geography; Indigenous Tourism; Sami; Sápmi; Tourism Supply; Tourism Demand; Stated Preference; Attitudes; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; Jokkmokk; Northern Sweden; sami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-194

Indigenous tourism is an expansive sector in the growing tourism industry. The Sami people living in Sápmi in northern Europe have started to engage in tourism, particularly in view of the rationalised and modernised methods of reindeer herding. Sami tourism offers job opportunities and enables the...