NS34 Session 32

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Title: Planning for „Good“ Tourism in the Nordic Region

Organisers: Anna Karlsdóttir and Íris Hrund Halldórsdóttir

Affiliation: University of Iceland

Description

Understanding the degree to which regional tourism strategies are used by the tourism actors, policy makers and local communities as tools has become more important. Aiming at balancing positive economic returns and social development in rural areas with the environmental or social burden of the tourism is key to a potential pathway of prosperity for involved communities. Enabling local communities to address their concerns on challenges and benefits for their regions in strategic plans has also become more common. What are the main concerns and interests in the different tourism planning documents? What visions for tourism development do they express, and what role do sustainability concerns play in the plans envisaged? Are municipalities and tourism authorities coordinating efforts or is the dialogue missing? In this session we want to address how local and regional stakeholders are addressing future visions of sustainable tourism for good. This session invites contributions that ask how tourism planning manifests in the regions the strategies aim at. We are especially interested in work that reconnects conversations often kept apart on visions, planning and/or strategies and the use of them in practice for the greater good of tourism development in the Nordic regions.