ABSTRACT
This book provides an in-depth examination of the growing Asian tourism market and consumption in Arctic destinations.
Through five parts, the book covers Asian mobilities consumption as an extension of Arctic international politics, the transportation sector and green cruise tourism, and ethnicity, culture, and history. It contributes to further understanding of the impacts of increased tourism in these polar regions by exploring climate change, debates around emerging economies and global power roles in the political, socio-economic, security and legal issues of the Arctic and Antarctic and associated polar strategies and policy. By drawing on a range of disciplines and with contributions from experts in Arctic destinations or who are associated with the Arctic, it further provides a holistic framing of emerging demand and mobility patterns of Asian tourists in a polar context.
Asian Mobilities Consumption in a Changing Arctic will be valuable reading for students and academics across the fields of tourism, economics, sustainability, development studies as well as other social science disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|26 pages
Setting the scene
chapter 2|13 pages
A critique on the non-critical application of Veblen's conspicuous consumption
part 2|44 pages
Arctic politics and Asian mobilities
chapter 4|13 pages
Chinese tourism in the Russian Arctic and Far East
chapter 5|15 pages
Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Chinese tourism
part 3|28 pages
Green cruise tourism and the potential new sea route between Asia and the Arctic
chapter 6|12 pages
Renewable energy-based cruise tourism for Asians in the Arctic
part 4|82 pages
Ethnicity, culture, experiences, and urbanisation
chapter 8|13 pages
“When I hear there's going to be an Asian tourist …”
chapter 9|11 pages
Thai mobility and consumerism at North Cape, Norway
chapter 10|16 pages
Learning from an Arctic adventure guide
part 5|14 pages
Closing