Sustainable Tourism or Sustainable Mobility? The Norwegian Case

Høyer, Karl Georg

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“…This included domestic, short-haul intra-European and long-haul routings, for a mix of reasons spanning tourism, visiting friends and relatives and business. Whilst there was some evidence of reduced personal and business air travel in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, regular air travel remained the norm, reflecting the propensity of Europe's hypermobile to take multiple short-break holidays each year (Hares et al, 2010;Høyer, 2000). Participants in both countries expressed a common need for regular holidays in warm destinations.…”

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“…The qualitative materials consist of 30 semi-structured open-ended interviews conducted in Norway and the United Kingdom in 2009. Our interest in Norway and the United Kingdom arises from tensions between the conspicuous aeromobility of large sections of their respective populations and government initiatives aimed at climate change mitigation (Gössling, 2009;Hares et al, 2010;Høyer, 2000).…”

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Cohen

Higham

Cavaliere

2011

Annals of Tourism Research

141

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Cohen

Higham

Cavaliere

2011

Annals of Tourism Research

141

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“…The governments of all three have been actively engaged in discourses addressing the urgency of climate change mitigation (Gössling 2009;Hares et al 2010;Høyer 2000). Specifically we set out to explore awareness of, attitudes towards, and personal behavioral responses to global climate change.…”

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Climate Change, Discretionary Air Travel, and the “Flyers’ Dilemma”

Higham

Cohen

Cavaliere

2013

Journal of Travel Research

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Abstract:The 'flyers' dilemma' describes the tension that now exists between the personal benefits of tourism and the climate concerns associated with high levels of personal aeromobility. This article presents the first international comparative analysis of attitudes towards climate change and discretionary air travel, providing insights into areas of convergence and divergence across three European societies -Norway, the United Kingdom and Germany. Employing a critical interpretive approach and drawing upon 48 indepth semi-structured interviews, we document evidence of widespread neglect of the 'flyers' dilemma'. Our comparative analysis confirms that although current discretionary air travel practices are deeply embedded and resistent to change, attitudes towards the climate crisis and barriers to behaviour change offer points of important contrast between different societies. Efforts to reformulate excessive discretionary air travel in response to accelerating global climate change must accommodate the unique issues and contrasting perspectives that exist in sections of these socieites.

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“…Geotourism is a knowledge-based type of tourism that looks for an interdisciplinary integration of the tourism industry with the conservation and interpretation of geological heritage at the same time as it promotes the economic and social development of local communities [1][2][3]. In this sense, it is considered a sustainable type of tourism that lies at the intersection between tourism as a global phenomenon and sustainable development as a global task [4][5][6][7].…”

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Geotourism at the Natural Park of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone (Catalonia, Spain): Impact, Viability, and Sustainability

Planagumà

Martı́

2018

Geosciences

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La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone is a suitable case study to analyze the impact and sustainability of geotourism on a protected volcanic field, as it has allowed the transformation of a poorly known territory into one of the best known and most visited geosites of Catalonia (Spain). The protection of this volcanic area represented the end of legal and illegal quarrying activities that significantly damaged most of its volcanoes, but also provided an opportunity to develop the zone for tourism. We compiled the available information from its establishment in 1982 as a natural park by the Catalan Government to the present day, in order to analyze the socio-economic impact of geotourism on this protected area and its surroundings. We paid attention to its evolution in terms of the number of visitors, the social and economic consequences that this type of tourism has had, and whether it is compatible with the conservation of natural assets, especially geological ones. We also studied the role that the co-management of the protected space by local administrations and private entities has had on its sustainability. The results obtained are relevant to visualizing the viability of geotourism in a protected area by combining the economic drive and the conservation of natural assets. Spaces such as La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone represent natural laboratories where we can observe the success of the application of environmentally friendly policies with a positive socioeconomic impact on geotourism.

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Sustainable Tourism or Sustainable Mobility? The Norwegian Case

Cited by 171 publications

References 11 publications

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Climate Change, Discretionary Air Travel, and the “Flyers’ Dilemma”

Geotourism at the Natural Park of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone (Catalonia, Spain): Impact, Viability, and Sustainability

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