Jarkko Saarinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jarkko Saarinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jarkko |
| FAMILY NAME | Saarinen |
| SIGNATURE | SAARINEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Recovery and Resilience in Tourism Planning and Development: Sustainable Pathways for Transforming Tourism in Africa
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
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…
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…
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…
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
Arctic Tourism in Times of Change: Dimensions of Urban Tourism
This case study was originally published as: de la Barre, S. (2020). Urban tourism in the wilderness city Whitehorse, Yukon (Canada). In Müller, D.K., Carson, D.A., de la Barre, S., Granås, B., Jóhannesson, G.T., Øyen, G., Rantala, O., Saarinen, J., Salmela, T., Tervo-Kankare, K., & Welling, J. Arctic tourism in times of change: Dimensions of urban tourism (pp. 28-40). Nordic Council of Ministers. DOI: 10.6027/temanord2020-529
Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals: Research on Sustainable Tourism Geographies
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Tourism Planning and Development: Contemporary Cases and Emerging Issues
Arctic tourism in times of change: Seasonality
This report was originally published as: Rantala, O., de la Barre, S., Granås,B., Jóhannesson, G.Þ., Müller, D.K., Saarinen, J., Tervo-Kankare, K., Maher, P.T., & Niskala, M. (2019). Arctic tourism in times of change: Seasonality. Nordic Council of Ministers. DOI: 10.6027/TN2019-528
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…
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…
Borderless Worlds for Whom: Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities
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
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
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…
Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa
This volume provides an overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tourism and the related impacts, possibilities and challenges from wide-ranging perspectives. Concepts explored include authenticity, commodification, the tourist gaze and ‘Otherness’, heritage and sustainability.
Cultural tourism in southern Africa
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…
‘Tourism into the wild’
Traditions of sustainability in tourism studies
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 into the wild’
No time for smokescreen skepticism: A rejoinder to Shani and Arad
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Cultural Tourism in Southern Africa
This volume provides an overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tourism and the related impacts, possibilities and challenges from wide-ranging perspectives. Concepts explored include authenticity, commodification, the tourist gaze and ‘Otherness’, heritage and sustainability.
Cultural tourism in southern Africa
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…
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…
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…
Borderless Worlds for Whom: Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities
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
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
Tourism Planning and Development: Contemporary Cases and Emerging Issues
Arctic tourism in times of change: Seasonality
This report was originally published as: Rantala, O., de la Barre, S., Granås,B., Jóhannesson, G.Þ., Müller, D.K., Saarinen, J., Tervo-Kankare, K., Maher, P.T., & Niskala, M. (2019). Arctic tourism in times of change: Seasonality. Nordic Council of Ministers. DOI: 10.6027/TN2019-528
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…
Arctic Tourism in Times of Change: Dimensions of Urban Tourism
This case study was originally published as: de la Barre, S. (2020). Urban tourism in the wilderness city Whitehorse, Yukon (Canada). In Müller, D.K., Carson, D.A., de la Barre, S., Granås, B., Jóhannesson, G.T., Øyen, G., Rantala, O., Saarinen, J., Salmela, T., Tervo-Kankare, K., & Welling, J. Arctic tourism in times of change: Dimensions of urban tourism (pp. 28-40). Nordic Council of Ministers. DOI: 10.6027/temanord2020-529
Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals: Research on Sustainable Tourism Geographies
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Tourism (26 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (21 works) · Geography (21 works) · Political science (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Ecotourism (7 works)