This chapter discusses rural tourism as a sustainable development tool, highlighting its environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts. Sustainable rural tourism practices and examples from countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Norway are presented. Glamping tourism is also proposed as...

This chapter considers the Romanian agricultural sector within the coordinates of the Common Agricultural Policy and presents an analysis of the evolution of the agricultural sector and agricultural industry in the case of several EU-28 member states and Norway between 2006 and 2015. This analysis...

After reports that the Hospital of Southern Norway has experienced a rise in referrals for suspected Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB), an investigation was carried out to examine these patients' symptoms and final diagnoses to learn more about the presentation of LNB in Norway. The medical records of...

This chapter examines rural well-being tourism as a form of tourism that enhances tourists' quality of life (QoL). It presents data collected in five Northern European countries, namely Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Denmark. The goal is to examine motivations and activity preferences of...

This chapter studies how divorce affects the gendered identities in Norwegian farming. Divorce has been considered particularly destructive in farming, where the unity of farm and family is perceived as the basis of its functioning and continuity. The chapter demonstrates how divorce dismantles not ...

This chapter discusses the ontology, epistemology and methodology appropriate for the study of memorable tourism experiences from a psychological perspective. It also presents examples of two psychological tourism projects from the Social Cognitive Studies in Tourism (SCI-TOUR) group at the...

This chapter presents an historical account of Arctic travel. It considers the diverse experiences of three French travellers to northern Norway in the context of the periphery-core dynamics of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

This chapter investigates a theory known as new museology, which considers how museums are forced to evolve in contemporary societies where data and alternative viewpoints are commonly available and perceived as multiple and concurrent realities. It examines, on one hand, how museums in Arctic...

This chapter commences with a brief discussion of the discourse of the valorization of World Heritage as an economic resource. Next, two World Heritage sites in the Municipality of Alta, northern Norway, are analysed. The two sites are the rock carving fields in Hjemmeluft and one of the points at...

This chapter focuses on a festival (the Snefjord Highland Gathering) in the remote Norwegian Arctic town of Snefjord and narrates the rebuilding of Sami identity through this event. The festival is in one sense out of place, both considered as a Scottish event and as a Sami event. The chapter shows ...