Contents

Contributors

Preface

Part 1 Conceptualizing Arctic Indigeneity and Tourism

1 Indigenous Tourism in the Arctic

2 Indigeneity and Indigenous Tourism

3 Images of the Northern and ‘Arctic’ in Tourism and Regional Literature

4 Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assemblages in Cultures, Capital and Identities

Part 2 Arctic Contestations; Resourcification of Indigenous Landscapes

5 Sami Tourism at the Crossroads: Globalization as a Challenge for Business, Environment and Culture in Swedish Sápmi

6 Tourist Hegemonies of Outside Powers: The Case of Salmon Fishing Safari Camps in Territories of Traditional Land Use (Kola Peninsula)

7 Empowering Whom? Politics and Realities of Indigenous Tourism Development in the Russian Arctic

8 Destination Development in the Middle of the Sápmi: Whose Voice is Heard and How?

9 Culture in Nature: Exploring the Role of ‘Culture’ in the Destination of Ilulissat, Greenland

Part 3 Touristification of the Arctic – Indigenous Wrapping

10 Peripheral Geographies of Creativity: The Case for Aboriginal Tourism in Canada’s Yukon Territory

11 Sport and Folklore Festivals of the North as Sites of Indigenous Cultural Revitalization in Russia

12 Indigenous Hospitality and Tourism: Past Trajectories and New Beginnings

Part 4 Tourism Negotiating Sami Traditions

13 What Does the Sieidi Do? Tourism as a Part of a Continued Tradition?

14 Sami Tourism in Northern Norway: Indigenous Spirituality and Processes of Cultural Branding

15 Respect in the Girdnu: The Sami Verdde Institution and Tourism in Northern Norway

Part 5 Epilogue

16 Toward a De-Essentializing of Indigenous Tourism?

Index