Juha Saarinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 199055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juha Saarinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juha |
| FAMILY NAME | Saarinen |
| SIGNATURE | SAARINEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9327-6932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 316 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Tourism zoning failures: Implications for protected area land-use planning
Phygital Arctic – rethinking Arctic tourism through digitalization
Arctic tourism is increasingly shaped by Arctification, a process through which stereotypical representations of the Arctic as a remote, snow-covered wilderness are attached through tourism and related imaginaries, practices, and products to places that were not previously considered as being Arctic. These representations can contribute to homogenization, and constrained development pathways. While sustainability needs have been widely examined i…
A frozen concern? The tourism industry’s perceptions of permafrost degradation in the Arctic
Handbook on Tourism Governance
Author response of: Computational simulations of potential Pachycrocuta bite damage based on a ~1.2 Ma ravaged hippopotamus femur from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain). Round#1
A recommendation of: Lloyd A. Courtenay, Alexia Serrano-Ramos, Juha Saarinen, Suvi Viranta, Deborah Barsky, Juan-Manuel Jiménez-Arenas, José Yravedra Computational simulations of potential Pachycrocuta bite damage based on a ~1.2 Ma ravaged hippopotamus femur from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain) https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.07.602373
Institutional limits of sustainability in tourism governance: Changing governance rationalities in protected area tourism in Finland
This study examines the co-evolution of tourism and the administration of Finnish protected areas (PAs), specifically focusing on how administrative legitimacy-seeking influences sustainable tourism governance. Drawing on concepts from new institutional theory, namely isomorphism (organizational convergence), legitimacy-seeking (the pursuit of societal approval), and decoupling (the separation of formal structures from practices), we analyse key …
Community inclusion in tourism development: Young People’s Social Innovation Propositions for Advancing Sustainable Tourism
Different community groups and members hold varying power positions in tourism development discussions and decision-making. From the sustainable development perspective, tourism planning and management should involve a diversity of voices, including also those with limited political or economic power. This article focuses on relatively little studied young people’s views on tourism development. The article uses the concept of social innovation fo…
Identifying constraints on Gen Z’s path toward ethical tourism consumption and practices
Gen Z's interest in ethical consumption, including tourism, is growing in response to pressing global challenges. However, there is limited research on the constraints tied to the ethical travel decisions of this young cohort of travelers. This qualitative study, grounded in the theory of constraints and ethical consumerism literature, addresses this gap. The findings reveal multi-layered and interrelated constraints categorized as intrapersonal …
Promoting gender inclusivity through community-based tourism
Making tourism geographies: A tribute to Alan A. Lew's lifework
This collection of responses to Alan Lew’s 2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting Special Lecture in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Why Travel? (Lew, 2024), reflects his enduring influence on the field of tourism geographies and its growth as a vibrant community of practice. As the founding Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies, Alan pioneered an inclusive, interdisciplinary vision for the field, shaping its trajectory for decades. Tr…
Tourism as a catalyst for socio-political change
Tourism is often recognized as a driver of economic growth, social change, and cultural exchange, yet its potential to challenge political systems remains underexplored. This study examines how tourism interacts with state control and social resistance in Iran, where the Islamic theocracy regulates mobility, bodies, and public spaces. Drawing on evolutionary economic geography (EEG), the research analyzes how domestic tourism influences socio-pol…
Kestävä matkailu: Katsaus tutkimusteemoihin ja -tarpeisiin
Kestävyys on yksi matkailututkimuksen keskeisistä tutkimusteemoista ja matkailutalouden kehittämisen tavoitteista. Tämä tekee kestävän matkailun tarkastelusta sekä akateemisesti että matkailupoliittisesti tärkeää. Tässä katsauksessa tarkastellaan kestävän matkailun tutkimuksen keskeisiä teemoja erityisesti Matkailututkimus -lehdessä vuosina 2005–2023 julkaistujen artikkelien perusteella. Tavoitteena on luoda yleiskuva kestävän matkailun tutkimuks…
From recovery to resilience building in tourism
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts
Despite the growing body of research on consumer activism, little is understood about tourists’ digitally mediated boycott consumption behaviours in relation to pro-sustainability concerns. Drawing upon research grounded in political consumerism and consumer sustainability behaviour and through a constructivist grounded theory lens via a series of semi-structured interviews, this study set out to fill this gap. Two main themes emerged from the an…
Do international sanctions help or inhibit justice and sustainability in tourism
Despite the expanded use of sanctions as a soft foreign policy tool in the post-Cold War era, there is yet little knowledge on the implications of this coercive tool in relation to justice, ethics and sustainability in destinations to which sanctions are applied. Using Iran as a case study and grounded in international relations and political science literature, this study used semi-structured interviews with tourism actors to assess the direct a…
Depictions of Travel in a Portuguese Diaspora Community Newspaper in South Africa
The vast territorial expansion of Portugal during the colonial era resulted in a significant global diaspora network, with one such community situated in South Africa. Multiple waves of immigration from Portugal, its autonomous regions, and former African colonies have given rise to an established diasporic community in South Africa. Acting as a vital communication channel, the O Século de Joanesburgo newspaper played a crucial role in keeping th…
Whose justice? Social (in)justice in tourism boycotts
Boycotting has long been acclaimed as an exemplary nonviolent tactic utilized in the pursuit of social justice. Guided by justice and political consumerism literature and using critical media discourse analysis, this study sought to investigate the portrayal of social justice in tourists' discourses surrounding travel boycott campaigns against Myanmar. While online narratives exhibit genuine concern for justice and morality, this research elucida…
Muistokirjoitus: Pekka Kauppila – Matkailun aluekehitysvaikutusten asiantuntija
Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa
This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments. Previous studies on climate change and tourism have mainly focused on the Global North and specific forms of tourism such as snow-based winter activities. Drawing on case studies from a wide range of countries including South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswan…
Unravelling Hominin Activities in the Zooarchaeological Assemblage of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)
Little is known about the subsistence practices of the first European settlers, mainly due to the shortage of archaeological sites in Europe older than a million years. This article contributes to the knowledge of the subsistence of the first Europeans with new zooarchaeology and taphonomic data from the Palaeolithic site of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain). We present the results of the analysis of the faunal assemblages retrieved in the con…
Adapting to climate change: The case of snow-based tourism in Afriski, Lesotho
Climate change poses significant challenges to the tourism sector, with snow-based tourism particularly threatened. Snow-based tourism is largely dependent on adaptation, including snowmaking practices and product diversification. In the global south, the limited snow-based tourism products face similar challenges to the global north, but with significantly higher vulnerability and lower adaptive capacity. By making use of a questionnaire survey …
Community perceptions on the benefits and challenges of community-based natural resources management in Zimbabwe
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) emphasises the role and benefits of local communities in order to promote a sustainable utilisation of natural resources. This study aims to identify and analyse the locally perceived benefits and challenges of CBNRM practices in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. A specific focus is on Communal Area Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE), which has faced challenges due to changes…
Tourism, Change and the Global South
"This significant volume is the first to focus on both the changing nature of tourism and the capacity of tourism to effect change, especially in the Global South. Geographically, this changing nature of tourism is based on the transforming relationships between demand, supply and locations. While this is nothing new in tourism, recent decades have intensified the changing characteristics of global tourism. From another perspective, tourism repre…
After glaciers?’ Towards post-Arctic tourism
Emerging post-Arctic tourism results from Anthropocene and climate change impacts. • Post-Arctic tourism takes place in a post-apocalyptic Arctic. • In Post-Arctic tourism, opportunities to see glaciers and iconic wildlife are gone. • Post-Arctic tourism products will be the result of how the Arctic is portrayed today
Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)
Over the last few decades, several types of evidence such as presence of hominin remains, lithic assemblages, and bones with anthropogenic surface modifications have demonstrated that early human communities inhabited the European subcontinent prior to the Jaramillo Subchron (1.07-0.98 Ma). While most studies have focused primarily on early European lithic technologies and raw material management, relatively little is known about food procurement…
Traditions of sustainability in tourism studies
Destinations in change’: The transformation process of tourist destinations
Tourism studies have for a long time been interested in tourist destinations, their identity and the changes occurring in them. In view of the ‘spatialization of social theory’ and the past discussions on locality studies in human geography, this article seeks to contribute to our understanding of research into tourist destinations and their changes. The article focuses on the conceptual nature of tourist destination and especially the processes …
Enclavic tourism spaces: Territorialization and Bordering in Tourism Destination Development and Planning
Enclave tourism is a growing field of research. In general, tourism enclaves are seen as products of global capitalism and a non-locally-driven neoliberal market economy. Enclaves also manifest certain kinds of tourism planning and development modes in destination societies. The enclaves are exclusively planned spaces that usually contain the vast majority of facilities and services needed for tourists who have limited possibilities or desire to …
Geographies of tourism development and planning
Development and planning have long been a focus of tourism geographers. Although the ideas of development and planning are complex and challenging to define and study, there is a strong agreement on the academic and societal relevance of their research in tourism geographies: tourism is a growth industry which requires holistic and future-oriented planning measures that minimize the negative externalities of tourism and guide the industry's growt…
Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: Perspectives Beyond 2015
As 2015 approaches, debates about the contribution to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs) are growing in momentum. The aim of this review is to interrogate the potential contributions of tourism to the UN MDGs, specifically of poverty alleviation, and of how the relationship between tourism development and the UN MDGs has been framed in existing scholarship. It is argued that whilst the global tourism industry potentially ca…
Enclaves in tourism: Producing and Governing Exclusive Spaces for Tourism
Exclusively planned tourism destinations, such as all-inclusive resorts, gated resort communities, private cruise liner-owned islands and privatized beaches, have increased over the last few decades. Researchers have analyzed these kinds of tourism environments as enclaves, which are typically driven by external forces and actors, strongly supported by globalization and the current neoliberal market economy. Existing research shows that tourism e…
Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)
Over the last few decades, several types of evidence such as presence of hominin remains, lithic assemblages, and bones with anthropogenic surface modifications have demonstrated that early human communities inhabited the European subcontinent prior to the Jaramillo Subchron (1.07-0.98 Ma). While most studies have focused primarily on early European lithic technologies and raw material management, relatively little is known about food procurement…
Wilderness use, conservation and tourism: What Do We Protect and for and From Whom
For many people today, the idea of wilderness conjures up meanings and images referring to wild, remote, and untrammeled natural areas, which need protection from human presence and utilization. Institutionally, the first Wilderness Act was prescribed in the United States over 50 years ago and the wilderness conservation originates from the establishment of the first national parks in North America in the nineteenth century. First conservation an…
Beyond growth thinking: The Need to Revisit Sustainable Development in Tourism
In 2015, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development published a report Revisiting Sustainable Development (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development [UNRISD], 2015
Transforming Tourism Spaces in Changing Socio-Political Contexts: The Case of Pärnu, Estonia, as a Tourist Destination
The need to understand tourist destinations and their change has grown considerably in past decades, and this has become an especially relevant matter with respect to destinations located in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, where international tourism and tourists are increasingly becoming characteristic features of the changing societies. This paper aims to analyse the historical transformation process of the town of Pärnu…
Unravelling Hominin Activities in the Zooarchaeological Assemblage of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)
Little is known about the subsistence practices of the first European settlers, mainly due to the shortage of archaeological sites in Europe older than a million years. This article contributes to the knowledge of the subsistence of the first Europeans with new zooarchaeology and taphonomic data from the Palaeolithic site of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain). We present the results of the analysis of the faunal assemblages retrieved in the con…
Costs and benefits of environmental change: Tourism industry's responses in Arctic Finland
Recent research has focused on the impacts of environmental change to tourism. In particular, the perceived costs of climate change have been increasingly studied. However, the relationship between costs and benefits resulting from the changing environmental conditions for the industry has been less examined. This paper identifies the locally observed changes in the natural and socio-economic environments and aims to analyse the financial costs a…
Whose justice? Social (in)justice in tourism boycotts
Boycotting has long been acclaimed as an exemplary nonviolent tactic utilized in the pursuit of social justice. Guided by justice and political consumerism literature and using critical media discourse analysis, this study sought to investigate the portrayal of social justice in tourists' discourses surrounding travel boycott campaigns against Myanmar. While online narratives exhibit genuine concern for justice and morality, this research elucida…
After glaciers?’ Towards post-Arctic tourism
Emerging post-Arctic tourism results from Anthropocene and climate change impacts. • Post-Arctic tourism takes place in a post-apocalyptic Arctic. • In Post-Arctic tourism, opportunities to see glaciers and iconic wildlife are gone. • Post-Arctic tourism products will be the result of how the Arctic is portrayed today
Challenges due to changing ideas of natural resources: Tourism and power plant development in the Icelandic wilderness
The Arctic and nearby remote areas are attracting more attention than ever before, because of their abundance of physical natural resources as well their wilderness environments which have become a major attraction for tourists. But use of land for tourism practices can lead to conflicts with other industries that utilise natural resources. Tourism in Iceland has grown rapidly in recent decades and nature and the wilderness is the main attraction…
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Identifying constraints on Gen Z’s path toward ethical tourism consumption and practices
Gen Z's interest in ethical consumption, including tourism, is growing in response to pressing global challenges. However, there is limited research on the constraints tied to the ethical travel decisions of this young cohort of travelers. This qualitative study, grounded in the theory of constraints and ethical consumerism literature, addresses this gap. The findings reveal multi-layered and interrelated constraints categorized as intrapersonal …
No time for smokescreen skepticism: A rejoinder to Shani and Arad
Community inclusion in tourism development: Young People’s Social Innovation Propositions for Advancing Sustainable Tourism
Different community groups and members hold varying power positions in tourism development discussions and decision-making. From the sustainable development perspective, tourism planning and management should involve a diversity of voices, including also those with limited political or economic power. This article focuses on relatively little studied young people’s views on tourism development. The article uses the concept of social innovation fo…
Promoting gender inclusivity through community-based tourism
Tourism as a catalyst for socio-political change
Tourism is often recognized as a driver of economic growth, social change, and cultural exchange, yet its potential to challenge political systems remains underexplored. This study examines how tourism interacts with state control and social resistance in Iran, where the Islamic theocracy regulates mobility, bodies, and public spaces. Drawing on evolutionary economic geography (EEG), the research analyzes how domestic tourism influences socio-pol…
The limits of inclusivity and sustainability in transfrontier peace parks: Case of Sengwe community in Great Limpopo transfrontier conservation area, Zimbabwe
Transfrontier peace parks are seized with the challenge of creating a more inclusive and sustainable conservation agenda in the officially designated peaceparks in southern Africa. The quest for inclusivity and sustainability has witnessed sustained lobbying from the local communities calling for more meaningful involvement in the conservation and tourism industry value chain in the peaceparks. Against this background it is therefore imperative t…
Myths on local use of natural resources and social equity of land use governance: Reindeer herding in Finland
Previous literature on social equity has focused on procedure, distribution and recognition related to land use governance. We propose novel approach to examine social equity by following ideational turn with an aim to explore globally used and locally persistent myths that (mis)inform governance in practice and effect on the three dimensions of social equity for reindeer herding in northern Finland. We take synthetizing approach and elaborate an…
Towards world heritage: International origins of the preservation movement 1870–1930
Towards world heritage: international origins of the preservation movement 1870–1930." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 7(4), pp. 367–368
Commentary: Tourism and recreation as subjects of research in Finnish geographical journals
Tourism Geographies ISSN 1461–6688 print/ISSN 1470-1340 online © 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals DOI: 10.1080/1461668032000068289 Commentary: tourism and recreation as subjects of research in Finnish geographical journals
Commentary: Tourism and recreation as subjects of research in Finnish geographical journals
Tourism Geographies ISSN 1461–6688 print/ISSN 1470-1340 online © 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals DOI: 10.1080/1461668032000068289 Commentary: tourism and recreation as subjects of research in Finnish geographical journals
Destinations in change’: The transformation process of tourist destinations
Tourism studies have for a long time been interested in tourist destinations, their identity and the changes occurring in them. In view of the ‘spatialization of social theory’ and the past discussions on locality studies in human geography, this article seeks to contribute to our understanding of research into tourist destinations and their changes. The article focuses on the conceptual nature of tourist destination and especially the processes …
Traditions of sustainability in tourism studies
Nordic Tourism: Issues and Cases
Tourism is an increasingly important industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) that is integral to economic, social and sustainable development. This book is includes case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resources, concepts and issues.
Transforming Tourism Spaces in Changing Socio-Political Contexts: The Case of Pärnu, Estonia, as a Tourist Destination
The need to understand tourist destinations and their change has grown considerably in past decades, and this has become an especially relevant matter with respect to destinations located in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, where international tourism and tourists are increasingly becoming characteristic features of the changing societies. This paper aims to analyse the historical transformation process of the town of Pärnu…
Special Issue: Tourism in Transition Economies
Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environment and Experiences
"The world's polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before. Once regarded as barren, inhospitable places where only explorers go, the north and south polar regions have been transformed into high profile tourism destinations, increasingly visited by cruise ships as well as becoming accessible with direct flights. Tourism is seen as one of the few economic opportunities in these regions but at the same time the polar regions are bein…
Making wilderness: Tourism and the history of the wilderness idea in Iceland
The notion of wilderness is often associated with high latitudes. This paper focuses on the historical and cultural processes that construct the wilderness idea in Iceland.Throughout the centuries histories have mirrored the feelings and opinions toward the wild and dangerous. These include the sagas and folktales about outlaws and supernatural beings in the Icelandic Highlands. Despite its harsh nature occasionally travelers did visit. However, …
Towards world heritage: International origins of the preservation movement 1870–1930
Towards world heritage: international origins of the preservation movement 1870–1930." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 7(4), pp. 367–368
Tourism, climate change and adaptation: A review
Using indicators to assess sustainable tourism development: A review
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of indicators in the transition to sustainability in tourism development and planning, identifying their main characteristics and summarising the challenges posed by their use in tourism development and in the research field. Indicators today constitute significant elements in sustainability programmes, but their use has been hampered by technical and conceptual difficulties. Furthermore, given that sp…
Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: Perspectives Beyond 2015
As 2015 approaches, debates about the contribution to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs) are growing in momentum. The aim of this review is to interrogate the potential contributions of tourism to the UN MDGs, specifically of poverty alleviation, and of how the relationship between tourism development and the UN MDGs has been framed in existing scholarship. It is argued that whilst the global tourism industry potentially ca…
‘Tourism into the wild’
No time for smokescreen skepticism: A rejoinder to Shani and Arad
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Challenges in tourism research
Challenges due to changing ideas of natural resources: Tourism and power plant development in the Icelandic wilderness
The Arctic and nearby remote areas are attracting more attention than ever before, because of their abundance of physical natural resources as well their wilderness environments which have become a major attraction for tourists. But use of land for tourism practices can lead to conflicts with other industries that utilise natural resources. Tourism in Iceland has grown rapidly in recent decades and nature and the wilderness is the main attraction…
Wilderness use, conservation and tourism: What Do We Protect and for and From Whom
For many people today, the idea of wilderness conjures up meanings and images referring to wild, remote, and untrammeled natural areas, which need protection from human presence and utilization. Institutionally, the first Wilderness Act was prescribed in the United States over 50 years ago and the wilderness conservation originates from the establishment of the first national parks in North America in the nineteenth century. First conservation an…
Costs and benefits of environmental change: Tourism industry's responses in Arctic Finland
Recent research has focused on the impacts of environmental change to tourism. In particular, the perceived costs of climate change have been increasingly studied. However, the relationship between costs and benefits resulting from the changing environmental conditions for the industry has been less examined. This paper identifies the locally observed changes in the natural and socio-economic environments and aims to analyse the financial costs a…
Geographies of tourism development and planning
Development and planning have long been a focus of tourism geographers. Although the ideas of development and planning are complex and challenging to define and study, there is a strong agreement on the academic and societal relevance of their research in tourism geographies: tourism is a growth industry which requires holistic and future-oriented planning measures that minimize the negative externalities of tourism and guide the industry's growt…
Enclavic tourism spaces: Territorialization and Bordering in Tourism Destination Development and Planning
Enclave tourism is a growing field of research. In general, tourism enclaves are seen as products of global capitalism and a non-locally-driven neoliberal market economy. Enclaves also manifest certain kinds of tourism planning and development modes in destination societies. The enclaves are exclusively planned spaces that usually contain the vast majority of facilities and services needed for tourists who have limited possibilities or desire to …
Borderless Worlds for Whom?: Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities
1. Introduction: borders, ethics, and mobilities Anssi Paasi, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Jarkko Saarinen, and Kaj Zimmerbauer Part I: Borders in a borderless world 2. Borderless worlds and beyond: challenging the state-centric cartographies Anssi Paasi 3. Imagining a borderless world Harald Bauder 4. Borders, distance, politics Paolo Novak Part II: Politics of inclusion and exclusion 5. 'Borderless' Europe and Brexit: young European migrant accounts of…
Resilient Destinations and Tourism: Governance Strategies in the Transition towards Sustainability in Tourism
This chapter seeks to engage in a more complex, critical, theoretically curious, and interdisciplinary discussion about tourism, governance and resilience. It seeks to challenge readers’ assumptions and excavate meanings underpinning commonly used terms like sustainability and tourism and governance. It is intended to provoke deep thinking, and to challenge embedded ways of conceptualising and operationalising these concepts. Scientific framing o…
Myths on local use of natural resources and social equity of land use governance: Reindeer herding in Finland
Previous literature on social equity has focused on procedure, distribution and recognition related to land use governance. We propose novel approach to examine social equity by following ideational turn with an aim to explore globally used and locally persistent myths that (mis)inform governance in practice and effect on the three dimensions of social equity for reindeer herding in northern Finland. We take synthetizing approach and elaborate an…
Using multivariate statistics to assess ecotourism potential of water-bodies: A case-study in Mauritania
Tourism (51 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (40 works) · Geography (40 works) · Political science (33 works) · Business (26 works) · Economics (22 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · Environmental planning (18 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Environmental resource management (15 works)