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.