ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses the process of place enactment in relation to a particular tourism development project carried out in the village of Thingeyri, Iceland. It explores parts of this process by describing the ways in which people in the village of Thingeyri in Iceland have worked on a transnational tourism development project entitled Destination Viking Sagalands Sagas and Storytelling'. The project is primarily financed by the European Union's INTERREG IIIB Northern Periphery Programme (NPP), and as such is an example of the transnational connections of tourism mobilities. The chapter discusses specific moments in the process of moving the DVS project to the village of Thingeyri. The DVS project began with meetings between Rgnvaldur, a tourist consultant based in Reykjavk and associated with Iceland's Institute for Regional Development, and the Nordic Atlantic Co-operation (NORA), an agency under the Nordic Council of Ministers, its central office located in Trshavn in the Faroes.