Journal of Tourism Futures: Volume 6 Issue 1 , Open Access

Arctic tourism research: emerging scholars are moving the network forward

Patrick T. Maher, Marisol Vereda, Suzanne de la Barre

Digital Rovaniemi: contemporary and future arctic tourist experiences

Alix Varnajot

The purpose of this paper is to investigate tourists’ representations of the Arctic through the lens of the photo-sharing social network Instagram. The study focuses on the…

Collaborative configurations of tourism development: a Greenlandic example

Daniela Chimirri

While tourism scholars have increasingly recognized the significance of collaboration as an essential element in tourism development, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical…

Sustainability in Ylläs: one focus, various interpretations

Miranda Cornelisse

Stakeholders have divergent views concerning sustainability in the development of tourism in Ylläs. The danger of these differences is that it can result into a conflict that…

Cultural centres: a future for cultural Arctic tourism?

Elizabeth Ann Cooper

The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of cultural centres to be spaces that foster interaction between tourists and locals, and thereby meet the demands of new…

Countering “Arctification”: Dawson City’s “Sourtoe Cocktail”

Elizabeth Ann Cooper, Michelle Spinei, Alix Varnajot

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Sourtoe Cocktail, a custom in Dawson City, Canada’s Yukon, in which participants drink a shot of alcohol with a dehydrated human toe…

“Everything changed!” – the ramification of the Second World War on the Canadian North

Raynald Harvey Lemelin, Michel S. Beaulieu, David Ratz

The purpose of this paper is to retrace past developments that occurred in the Alaskan and Canadian North as of result of the Second World War and illustrate the ramifications of…

The last resort? Ski tourism and climate change in Arctic Sweden

Osman Cenk Demiroglu, Linda Lundmark, Jarkko Saarinen, Dieter K. Müller

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the external and internal factors that support or challenge a possible transformation of Arctic Sweden into a major ski destination under a…

Arctic expedition cruise tourism and citizen science: a vision for the future of polar tourism

Audrey R. Taylor, Þórný Barðadóttir, Sarah Auffret, Annette Bombosch, Allison Lee Cusick, Edda Falk, Amanda Lynnes

The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework for using citizen science – defined as a data collection method through which non-professionals engage in…

A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures

Bob Frame

Imaginative Communities: Admired Cities, Regions and Countries

Marco Bevolo