We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Tourisme de croisière et communautés éloignées au Groenland.
- Authors
Tommasini, Daniela
- Abstract
In recent years, Greenland Tourism, the national tourism organisation of Greenland, has had a policy of strongly encouraging pleasure cruises. Large ships, with sometimes up to 3,000 passengers, are trying to go farther and farther north to show tourists the most remote places and communities. A short historical outline reveals how tourism development in Greenland has always been planned with local means, against a backdrop of steady growth in cruise tourism. This sector has been strongly encouraged and continues to bring ever more visitors and an ever keener search for new destinations along coastal Greenland. Tour operators seek out the most impressive scenery in terms of typicality and landscape, usually in peripheral and isolated areas with small communities. Such communities are experiencing a fairly severe economic and social crisis in daily life, and tourism is regarded as an option to diversify and boost their revenues. The author uses four Greenlandic communities (Ukkusissat, Itilleq, Qaanaaq, and Ittoqqortoormiit) as examples to discuss the impacts and benefits of cruise tourism in these communities, which often lack the infrastructure to accommodate tourists who come for a few hours to visit and often in large numbers. The opinions of the local population are also presented.
- Subjects
GREENLAND; QAANAAQ (Greenland); ITTOQQORTOORMIIT (Greenland); ARCTIC regions; OCEAN travel; TOURISM; CULTURE &; tourism; ECONOMICS; TRAVEL &; the environment; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Études Inuit Studies, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0701-1008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1015981ar