ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is devoted to discussions of theoretical approaches to the field of tourist destinations. It examines the transformations of places into tourism destinations. The book argues that this is an awakening process in Andy. Situated north of the Lofoten islands, Andy has for twenty years provided whale safari activities, and the community now seems to look at tourism as a way of living. The book uses stakeholder and network approaches to the analysis of destination development. The stakeholder perspective is explicitly applied to tourism development. Some of the cases in the book refer to situations in which tourism has a quite different role, as in Sarisekl and Kilpisjrvi in Finland, where it is dominant industry with a well-established position and where it involves quite different challenges where it is dominant industry with a well-established position and where it involves quite different challenges.
