Arctic tourism experiences : production, consumption and sustainability / edited by Young-Sook Lee, David B. Weaver and Nina K. Prebensen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arctic destinations and attractions as evolving peripheral settings for the production and consumption of peak tourism experiences / Young-Sook Lee, David B. Weaver and Nina K. Prebensen -- Experiencing the arctic in the past : French visitors to Finnmark in the late 1700s and early 1800s / Isabelle Guissard and Young-Sook Lee -- Roles of adventure guides in balancing perceptions of risk and safety / Arild Røkenes and Line Mathisen -- The central role of identity in the Arctic periphery / Sara Davoudi, Claes Högström and Bård Tronvoll -- Tourists and narration in the Arctic : the changing experience of museums / Johan Edelheim and Young-Sook Lee -- World heritage list = tourism attractiveness? / Kjell Olsen -- Degrees of peripherality in the production and consumption of leisure tourism in Greenland / David Weaver and Laura Lawton -- Northern lights experiences in the Arctic dark : old imaginaries and new tourism narratives / Stein Roar Mathisen -- Exploring the extreme Iditarod Trail in Alaska / Hans Anton Stubberud and Carsten Blom Ruud -- The Arctic tourism experience from an evolving Chinese perspective / Chuanzhong Tang, Ming-Feng Huang and David Weaver -- Tourists' interpretations of a "feelgood in Lapland" holiday : a case study / Raija Komppula -- Negotiating Sami place and identity : do Scottish traditions help Sami to be more Sami? / Beate Bursta -- Emergence of experience production systems for mass tourism participation in peripheral regions : evidence from Arctic Scandinavia / Peter Fischer -- Factors of peripherality : whale watching in northern Norway / Giovanna Bertella -- Responsible fishing tourism in the Arctic / Nina Prebensen and Sølvi Lyngnes -- Long way up : powered two-wheeled journeys in northern peripheries / Carl Cater -- Experiences of marine adventurers in the Canadian Arctic / Margaret E. Johnston, Elsa De Souza and R. Harvey Lemelin -- Arctic tourism in Russia : attractions, experiences, challenges and potentials / Sergey Ilkevich, and Per Strömberg -- Tourism experiences of post-Soviet Arctic borderlands / Peter Haugseth and Urban Wråkberg -- Arctic tourism experiences : opportunities, challenges and future research directions for a changing periphery / Young-Sook Lee, David B. Weaver and Nina K. Prebensen.