Tourism and cultural heritage in Subarctic and Central Europe
Tourism and cultural heritage in Subarctic and Central Europe

Author(s): Urban Wråkberg
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Regional Geography, Tourism
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Tourism; cultural heritage; Subarctic; Central Europe;
Summary/Abstract: According to most science-based defi nitions (the Arctic circle, the treeline, the existence of permafrost, etc.) the European Subarctic consists roughly in the northernmost counties of Norway, Sweden and Finland, and in northern Russia, west of the Urals: the counties of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. North-West Russian tourism is oft en routed via Moscow or Saint Petersburg and linked to tourist operators in the adjacent southern Republics of Komi and Karelia. Taken together this “north” overlaps with most of the socio-political partnership, launched in 1993, called the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. Given that this region is sparsely populated by most standards and strikes a majority of visitors from the south as a desolate polar “wilderness,” it is still the most populated part of the circumpolar north.

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