Tourism Place-making: Governance of Locality in Sweden
Författare
Summary, in English
The presented argument comes from a frustration with the instrumental and de-contextualized view of tourism as a force of spatial change. Consequently, this article empirically illustrates the place-making agency of tourism by engaging with the mundane practicalities of producing geographical attractiveness. Place-making is investigated through four examples of destination developments with different rationales in Sweden. Using governance theory to identify stakeholder relations, it is shown how tourism makes place through different governance approaches. It is concluded that the place-making agency of tourism works across – and can be understood to annihilate – both socio-economic boundaries used to distinguish between political, business and non-profit agendas, as well as ontologizing ones such as those separating nature/culture, urban/rural and past/present.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
547-570
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Annals of Tourism Research
Volym
39
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Pergamon Press Ltd.
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- place-making
- governance
- locality
- social construction of meaning
- practice
Status
Published
Projekt
- Den kommersiella vänskapens pris - sociala förhandlingar om värde i upplevelseekonomin
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1873-7722