Sustainable Destination Development in Northern Peripheries: A Focus on Alternative Tourism Paths
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Abstract
Research has pointed out how tourism destinations in northern, sparsely populated areas are typically developed in accordance with the ideals of growth. This hinders efforts towards sustainable development in destination communities. The objective of this paper is to look into the large-scale growth-focused path creation process by studying how such tourism path creation appears from the perspective of various tourism actors in a destination community. The research draws on insights from local tourism actors in the case study area of the Ylläs in Finnish Lapland. This paper approaches tourism path creation by combining poststructural political economy thinking with evolutionary economic geography perspectives. The analysis highlights the existence of alternative economic knowledge on tourism development in the Ylläs tourism destination community, which deviates from the strongly growth-focused tourism path. The paper proposes that if regional economies of northern sparsely populated areas are to be developed in line with the goals of sustainability, tourism path creation should appreciate such alternative economic thinking existing in the community. In doing so, the paper suggests there is a possibility for less resource-intensive and more locally-led path creation through tourism in the sparsely populated north. Keywords: tourism destinations, path creation, co-evolution, economic difference, community economies, networking, sustainability Développement de destinations durables dans les périphéries nordiques: un regard sur des itinéraires touristiques alternatifs Résumé Les recherches ont montré comment les destinations touristiques des régions septentrionales à faible densité de population sont généralement développées conformément aux idéaux de croissance. Cela entrave les efforts de développement durable dans les communautés de destination. L'objectif de cet article est d'examiner le processus de création de chemins à grande échelle axé sur la croissance en étudiant comment cette création de chemins touristiques apparaît du point de vue de divers acteurs du tourisme dans une communauté de destination. La recherche s'appuie sur les connaissances des acteurs du tourisme local dans la zone d'étude de cas d'Ylläs en Laponie finlandaise. Ce document aborde la création de trajectoires touristiques en combinant la pensée post-structurelle en économie politique avec les perspectives de la géographie économique évolutive. L'analyse met en évidence l'existence de connaissances économiques alternatives sur le développement du tourisme dans la communauté des destinations touristiques d'Ylläs, qui dévie de la trajectoire touristique fortement axée sur la croissance. Cet article propose que si les économies régionales des zones septentrionales peu peuplées doivent être développées conformément aux objectifs de durabilité, la création de voies touristiques devrait prendre en compte la pensée économique alternative existant dans la communauté. Ainsi, cet article suggère qu'il est possible que le tourisme dans le nord peu peuplé crée des sillons moins gourmands en ressources et plus locaux.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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