Arvid Viken
Biographic Data
| ID | 188833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arvid Viken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arvid |
| FAMILY NAME | Viken |
| SIGNATURE | VIKEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5970-6014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tourists’ climate change denial? A view from Norway
This study explores the paradox of climate change denial among Norwegian tourists, a group from a nation celebrated for environmental leadership yet ranked among the highest aviation emitters. Based on 30 qualitative interviews, the research identifies 2 key denial strategies: interpretative denial, which downplays climate change through personal benefits and symbolic actions, and implicatory denial, which manifests as psychological, moral, and p…
The right to roam – balancing inclusion and enclosure
The right to roam – balancing inclusion and enclosure. In Norway, the right to roam is an old custom – a right to traverse and gather berries, herbs and firewood on uncultivated lands – dating back to the Viking Age. In 1957, this right was included in Norwegian laws, in the Outdoor Life Act (Friluftslova). The law transformed agrarian lands into areas for outdoor life and recreation, primarily walking and hiking. However, due to modernisation, t…
Cultural Sensitivity within Norwegian Sámi Tourism
This article addresses tourism in the Sámi areas of Norway and how 23 Sámi and non‐Sámi tourism providers deal with issues of cultural sensitivity. The article is based on a study that asked how sensitive issues had occurred in Sámi tourism operations and how they had dealt with them. Both Sámi and non‐Sámi tourism experience providers met a series of dilemmas. During interviews and conversations, terms such as recognition and respect appeared, w…
Tourism mobilities and climate crisis dilemmas
Framed by a multidimensional approach to dilemmas, this qualitative study focuses on Norwegians' views on tourism mobilities and climate change dilemmas, contextual aspects, coping strategies, and consequences. Despite being situated in ideological and moral landscapes where the climate crisis is largely ignored, all participants acknowledge the dilemmas. However, the unconcerned deny personal responsibility and are unwilling to change their trav…
Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19
COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to…
Tourism appropriation of Sámi land and culture
This article addresses cultural and other forms of appropriation related to tourism in the Sámi areas of Norway (Sápmi). Tourists are chasing and consuming otherness – places, culture and nature different from their home environments. Thus, exposures of arts, culture, nature and places are vital parts of tourism production. Within this context, indigenous cultures are praised. When the use of land and culture is conducted by those from outside th…
Cultural sensitivity
Cultural sensitivity is highly relevant but inadequately conceptualized in tourism contexts. This article explores and advances understanding of cultural sensitivity in relation to Arctic tourism where local and Indigenous livelihoods and environments are tethered to dynamics of recent tourism growth and decline, climate change, and colonial power relations. Framing cultural sensitivity as a subjective orientation towards otherness, the article i…
Co-management in environmental planning
Planning for a more sustainable world often takes place under conditions of radical uncertainty. In the Arctic environment, risks related to resource exploitation have increased as new areas are made accessible by climate change and a diminished ice cap in the polar basin. This chapter presented a case from Svalbard, an archipelago almost 1,000 km north of the Norwegian mainland, half way to the North Pole. East Svalbard is unpopulated. The point…
Tourism Destination Development
Contents: Preface Dimensions of tourism destinations, Arvid Viken and Brynhild Granas. Part I Conceptualizing Destinations: Destinations discourses and the growth paradigm, Arvid Viken Transforming destinations: a discursive approach to tourist destinations and development, Jarkko Saarinen Destination development performances: or how we learn to love tourism, Simone Abram A place for whom? A place for what? The powers of destinization, Brynhild G…
Communities of practice in the management of an Arctic environment
This article addresses knowledge management in governing vulnerable polar areas and tourism. Since the 1870s, Svalbard has been a cruise tourism destination. Due to less ice during the summer period, the number of tourists visiting the remote northeast corner of the archipelago has increased significantly, and the potential negative impact on this vulnerable natural environment has become an issue. The standard modes of managing these areas have …
Tourism, research, and governance on Svalbard
The tourism industry, research activities, and governing institutions are often seen as three very different, independent, and partly antagonistic activities and sectors – tourism as pure profit-pursuing, research as indifferent to business, and governing as controlling both. In this paper, it is argued that this is not the case on Svalbard, where a symbiotic relationship exists between the three sectors. Tourism to the islands emerged in the wak…
Kirkenes
1 1. This is a significantly revised version of an article published in Nyseth and Granås 2007 “Place-reinvention – Dynamics and Governance Perspectives”, Stockholm: Nordregio. This article analyses the transformation of Kirkenes, a small town on the Russian–Norwegian border, from an industrial town to a border town. Kirkenes was established as a harbour for an iron-ore mining venture in what today is the municipality of Sør-Varanger. This indust…
Introduction
This special issue of Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism is devoted to tourism in the Sami parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway, a region that together with an area in Russia is called ...
Tourism on Svalbard
This article gives an overview of tourism on Svalbard. Tourism to this archipelago, which is under the jurisdiction of Norway, started more than 100 years ago. As a modern industry, however, the end of 1980s can be seen as the starting period. Since 1990, tourism development has been given priority by the Norwegian government, and there has been a significant increase both in commercial activities and in the number of tourists. Early and recent t…
Tourism development in Greenland
Polar Tourism Implications and Management
Cultural sensitivity
Cultural sensitivity is highly relevant but inadequately conceptualized in tourism contexts. This article explores and advances understanding of cultural sensitivity in relation to Arctic tourism where local and Indigenous livelihoods and environments are tethered to dynamics of recent tourism growth and decline, climate change, and colonial power relations. Framing cultural sensitivity as a subjective orientation towards otherness, the article i…
Tourism, research, and governance on Svalbard
The tourism industry, research activities, and governing institutions are often seen as three very different, independent, and partly antagonistic activities and sectors – tourism as pure profit-pursuing, research as indifferent to business, and governing as controlling both. In this paper, it is argued that this is not the case on Svalbard, where a symbiotic relationship exists between the three sectors. Tourism to the islands emerged in the wak…
Tourism on Svalbard
This article gives an overview of tourism on Svalbard. Tourism to this archipelago, which is under the jurisdiction of Norway, started more than 100 years ago. As a modern industry, however, the end of 1980s can be seen as the starting period. Since 1990, tourism development has been given priority by the Norwegian government, and there has been a significant increase both in commercial activities and in the number of tourists. Early and recent t…
Kirkenes
1 1. This is a significantly revised version of an article published in Nyseth and Granås 2007 “Place-reinvention – Dynamics and Governance Perspectives”, Stockholm: Nordregio. This article analyses the transformation of Kirkenes, a small town on the Russian–Norwegian border, from an industrial town to a border town. Kirkenes was established as a harbour for an iron-ore mining venture in what today is the municipality of Sør-Varanger. This indust…
Tourism development in Greenland
Communities of practice in the management of an Arctic environment
This article addresses knowledge management in governing vulnerable polar areas and tourism. Since the 1870s, Svalbard has been a cruise tourism destination. Due to less ice during the summer period, the number of tourists visiting the remote northeast corner of the archipelago has increased significantly, and the potential negative impact on this vulnerable natural environment has become an issue. The standard modes of managing these areas have …
Tourism mobilities and climate crisis dilemmas
Framed by a multidimensional approach to dilemmas, this qualitative study focuses on Norwegians' views on tourism mobilities and climate change dilemmas, contextual aspects, coping strategies, and consequences. Despite being situated in ideological and moral landscapes where the climate crisis is largely ignored, all participants acknowledge the dilemmas. However, the unconcerned deny personal responsibility and are unwilling to change their trav…
Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19
COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to…
Tourism appropriation of Sámi land and culture
This article addresses cultural and other forms of appropriation related to tourism in the Sámi areas of Norway (Sápmi). Tourists are chasing and consuming otherness – places, culture and nature different from their home environments. Thus, exposures of arts, culture, nature and places are vital parts of tourism production. Within this context, indigenous cultures are praised. When the use of land and culture is conducted by those from outside th…
Tourism development in Greenland
Polar Tourism Implications and Management
Tourism on Svalbard
This article gives an overview of tourism on Svalbard. Tourism to this archipelago, which is under the jurisdiction of Norway, started more than 100 years ago. As a modern industry, however, the end of 1980s can be seen as the starting period. Since 1990, tourism development has been given priority by the Norwegian government, and there has been a significant increase both in commercial activities and in the number of tourists. Early and recent t…
Introduction
This special issue of Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism is devoted to tourism in the Sami parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway, a region that together with an area in Russia is called ...
Kirkenes
1 1. This is a significantly revised version of an article published in Nyseth and Granås 2007 “Place-reinvention – Dynamics and Governance Perspectives”, Stockholm: Nordregio. This article analyses the transformation of Kirkenes, a small town on the Russian–Norwegian border, from an industrial town to a border town. Kirkenes was established as a harbour for an iron-ore mining venture in what today is the municipality of Sør-Varanger. This indust…
Tourism, research, and governance on Svalbard
The tourism industry, research activities, and governing institutions are often seen as three very different, independent, and partly antagonistic activities and sectors – tourism as pure profit-pursuing, research as indifferent to business, and governing as controlling both. In this paper, it is argued that this is not the case on Svalbard, where a symbiotic relationship exists between the three sectors. Tourism to the islands emerged in the wak…
Tourism Destination Development
Contents: Preface Dimensions of tourism destinations, Arvid Viken and Brynhild Granas. Part I Conceptualizing Destinations: Destinations discourses and the growth paradigm, Arvid Viken Transforming destinations: a discursive approach to tourist destinations and development, Jarkko Saarinen Destination development performances: or how we learn to love tourism, Simone Abram A place for whom? A place for what? The powers of destinization, Brynhild G…
Communities of practice in the management of an Arctic environment
This article addresses knowledge management in governing vulnerable polar areas and tourism. Since the 1870s, Svalbard has been a cruise tourism destination. Due to less ice during the summer period, the number of tourists visiting the remote northeast corner of the archipelago has increased significantly, and the potential negative impact on this vulnerable natural environment has become an issue. The standard modes of managing these areas have …
Co-management in environmental planning
Planning for a more sustainable world often takes place under conditions of radical uncertainty. In the Arctic environment, risks related to resource exploitation have increased as new areas are made accessible by climate change and a diminished ice cap in the polar basin. This chapter presented a case from Svalbard, an archipelago almost 1,000 km north of the Norwegian mainland, half way to the North Pole. East Svalbard is unpopulated. The point…
Cultural sensitivity
Cultural sensitivity is highly relevant but inadequately conceptualized in tourism contexts. This article explores and advances understanding of cultural sensitivity in relation to Arctic tourism where local and Indigenous livelihoods and environments are tethered to dynamics of recent tourism growth and decline, climate change, and colonial power relations. Framing cultural sensitivity as a subjective orientation towards otherness, the article i…
Tourism appropriation of Sámi land and culture
This article addresses cultural and other forms of appropriation related to tourism in the Sámi areas of Norway (Sápmi). Tourists are chasing and consuming otherness – places, culture and nature different from their home environments. Thus, exposures of arts, culture, nature and places are vital parts of tourism production. Within this context, indigenous cultures are praised. When the use of land and culture is conducted by those from outside th…
Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19
COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to…
Tourism mobilities and climate crisis dilemmas
Framed by a multidimensional approach to dilemmas, this qualitative study focuses on Norwegians' views on tourism mobilities and climate change dilemmas, contextual aspects, coping strategies, and consequences. Despite being situated in ideological and moral landscapes where the climate crisis is largely ignored, all participants acknowledge the dilemmas. However, the unconcerned deny personal responsibility and are unwilling to change their trav…
The right to roam – balancing inclusion and enclosure
The right to roam – balancing inclusion and enclosure. In Norway, the right to roam is an old custom – a right to traverse and gather berries, herbs and firewood on uncultivated lands – dating back to the Viking Age. In 1957, this right was included in Norwegian laws, in the Outdoor Life Act (Friluftslova). The law transformed agrarian lands into areas for outdoor life and recreation, primarily walking and hiking. However, due to modernisation, t…
Cultural Sensitivity within Norwegian Sámi Tourism
This article addresses tourism in the Sámi areas of Norway and how 23 Sámi and non‐Sámi tourism providers deal with issues of cultural sensitivity. The article is based on a study that asked how sensitive issues had occurred in Sámi tourism operations and how they had dealt with them. Both Sámi and non‐Sámi tourism experience providers met a series of dilemmas. During interviews and conversations, terms such as recognition and respect appeared, w…
Tourists’ climate change denial? A view from Norway
This study explores the paradox of climate change denial among Norwegian tourists, a group from a nation celebrated for environmental leadership yet ranked among the highest aviation emitters. Based on 30 qualitative interviews, the research identifies 2 key denial strategies: interpretative denial, which downplays climate change through personal benefits and symbolic actions, and implicatory denial, which manifests as psychological, moral, and p…
Tourism (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Business (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works) · Norwegian (5 works) · Political science (5 works)