Despite its extreme remoteness, the geographic North Pole is attracting more tourists than
ever before, bringing increasing numbers of people and ships to the Arctic Ocean. This …

This paper explores tourism development in Greenland using connectivity as a prism to
explore the emerging challenges and opportunities brought about by vast distances and …

The Svalbard Archipelago has experienced a rapid increase in tourism-related activities
over the past few decades. The Norwegian Government's ambition to develop the …

The continued growth of polar tourism is causing increasing concerns about its potential
environmental effects, invigorating the current discourse about tourism's role in the …

This paper explores the relationship between regional branding, global visions of the Arctic,
and tourism seasonality. We analyse tourism development in the Ylläs tourism destination in …

While the topic was largely ignored until the 1990s, academic interest in Arctic tourism has
developed rapidly ever since. This has gone hand in hand with increased tourism to the …

External effects significantly affect Arctic tourism. This not only relates to climate change
proposing a long-term threat but also other events, like the COVID pandemic. Small regional …

As inhabitants of northern Norway, we witness a growing use of northern landscapes for the
production of commercial nature experiences. This is the region in Norway that recently has …

Consequently, a location in the periphery at the lower end of a destination hierarchy affects
the composition of the local businesses. Lundgren (1982) even argues that the peripheral …

Since the publication of Hall and Johnston's seminal book “Polar Tourism: Tourism in the
Arctic and Antarctic Regions” in 1995, tourism in the Arctic has gained substantial research …