ABSTRACT
Tourism is seen as a major alternative to the rural decline in many European countries. This has also been the case in Andy and Mlselv. This chapter discusses tourism development in Andy and Mlselv, focusing on the relations between tourism and community development. Many local actors in Andy and Mlselv express resistance to developing mass tourism. Focusing on the interrelation between the tourist landscape and the inhabited landscape of local experience, through encounters and discourses of community development, it examines how tourism development enters into a complexity of on-going local processes. In the magic island of Andya and the exotic alpine destination of Mlselv tourist landscape and the inhabited landscapes are meshing, but also clashing. The creation of destinations enters into broader processes of community development and causes negotiations of local landscapes. The process of restructuring involves the recreation of local geographies, and tourism development inevitably implies landscape changes.
