This is the first book to exclusively address tourism and indigenous peoples in the circumpolar North. It examines how tourism in indigenous communities is influenced by academic and political discourses and how communities are influenced by tourism. The volume seeks to challenge stereotypical understandings of indigenousness and indigeneity.

Preface Contributors Part I: Conceptualizing Arctic Indigeneity and Tourism 1. Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken: Indigenous Tourism in the Arctic 2. Arvid Viken and Dieter K. Müller: Indigeneity and Indigenous Tourism 3. E. Carina H. Keskitalo: Images of the Northern and “Arctic” In Tourism and Regional Literature 4. Britt Kramvig: Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assembling Culture, Capital and Identity Part II: Arctic Contestations; Resourcification of Indigenous Landscapes 5. Dieter K. Müller and Fredrik Hoppstadius: Sami Tourism At The Crossroad: Globalization As Challenge For Business, Environment And Culture In Swedish Sápmi 6. Yulian Konstantinov: Tourist Hegemonies of Outside Powers: The Case of Salmon-Fishing Safari-Camps in Territories of Traditional Land-Use (Kola Peninsula) 7. Albina Pashkevich: Empowering Whom? Politics and Realities of Indigenous Tourism Development in the Russian Arctic 8. Seija Tuulentie: Destination Development In The Middle Of the Sápmi: Whose Voice Is Heard and How? 9. Karina M. Smed: Culture in Nature - Exploring the Role of ‘Culture’ In the Destination of Ilulissat, Greenland Part III: Touristification of the Arctic – Indigenous Wrapping 10. John S. Hull, Suzanne De La Barre and Patrick T. Maher: Peripheral Geographies Of Creativity: The Case For Indigenous Tourism And Community Economic Development In The Western Canadian Arctic 11. Vladislava Vladimirova:  “Sport and Folklore”: Festivals as Sites of Indigenous Cultural Revitalization in Russia 12. Gro B. Ween and Åge Riseth: Indigenous Hospitality and Tourism: Past Trajectories and New Beginnings Part IV: Tourism Negotiating Sami Traditions 13. Kjell Olsen: What Does The Sieidi Do? Tourism as a Part of a Continued Tradition? 14. Trude Fonneland: Indigenous Spirituality and the Staging of Sami Culture in Northern Scandinavia 15. Gaute Svensson and Arvid Viken: Tourism, Nomadism and the Sami Verdde Nexus Part V: Epilogue 16. Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken: Towards a De-Essentializing of Indigenous Tourism?

The roles of indigenous peoples in tourism are complex, dynamic and politically sensitive all of which contribute to their worthiness as well as their challenge as subjects of academic discourse. Viken and Müller have done a masterful job of meeting these challenges in their edited volume Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic – a “must-read" for tourism students, stakeholders and scholars.