Viken, Arvid.

Tourism destination development : turns and tactics / by Arvid Viken and Brynhild Granås. - Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. - xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I Conceptualizing Destinations;

2 Destinations Discourses and the Growth Paradigm;
3 Transforming Destinations: A Discursive Approach to Tourist Destinations and Development;
4 Destination Development Performances: Or How we Learn to Love Tourism;
5 A Place for Whom? A Place for What? The Powers of Destinization;

PART II Catalysing Themed Destinations;

6 Weaving with Witchcraft: Tourism and Entrepreneurship in Strandir, Iceland.
7 Ski Resort Development. Scripts and Phronesis
8 Sled Dog Racing and Tourism Development in Finnmark. A Symbiotic Relationship;

PART III Reorienting Destinations;

9 Integrated Tourism Development? When Places of the Ordinary Are Transformed to Destinations;
10 Standardization and Power in Cruise Destination Development;
11 Transforming Visions and Pathways in Destination Development;
12 A Hotel Waiting for Renovation; PART IV Destinations as Politics;
13 Dynamic Development or Destined to Decline?;
14 Responsible Tourism Governance. A Case Study of Svalbard and Nunavut.

9781472416582 (hardback : alk. paper)


Tourism--Marketing.
Tourism--Management.
Place marketing.

910.684 / VIK/T