Asian Mobilities Consumption in a Changing Arctic (Routledge Advances in Tourism)

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.

Young-Sook Lee is professor in tourism management at the School of Business and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. As a Korean-Australian (moved to Australia after her first degree), she completed her PhD in Sociology (applied in tourism) at the University of Queensland, Australia. She worked as a tourism management academic in Australia (Griffith University) for over 15 years before relocating to Norway in 2014.