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Author: | Rantala, O. |
Title: | Tourist practices in the forest |
Journal: | Annals of Tourism Research
2010 : JAN, VOL. 37:1 p. 249-264 |
Index terms: | tourism tourist industry sociology Finland |
Freeterms: | nature tourism tourist experience guiding |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The article studies how tourism environments, the actions of tourist guides and tourists' experiences interrelate. The focus of the study is in the ways in which forests are produced as suitable tourist industry environments. A study of foreign nature tourists and their guides in Lapland, Finland, is conducted to examine tourist practices in this environment. |
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