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Impacts of short‐time visitors on local communities in the mountain areas of Southern Norway
Author(s) -
Flognfeldt Thor
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1522-1970
pISSN - 1099-2340
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1522-1970(199909/10)1:5<359::aid-jtr202>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , tourism , geography , agriculture , rural area , rural tourism , marketing , business , regional science , tourism geography , political science , computer science , archaeology , law , programming language
Many of the rural municipalities in the mountain areas of southern Norway want to develop their ‘tourism possibilities’, in addition to agriculture and industrial production. Until now most studies of tourism development in these areas have focused on possibilities of developing facilities for guests staying at resorts, or at tourist bases. Tourists that are passing quickly through the area, just stopping for some hours or just one night, have been looked upon as a type of ‘non‐visitor’ or ‘non‐important tourists’. As such they are often regarded as a type of ‘non‐user’ of attractions and ‘non‐spenders’. Our studies show that, measured in economic figures or by activity utilisation, this view is not based on reality. In this paper the focus is to look closer at the roles of such short‐time visitors, and to compare their behaviour with that of other types of visitor to the area. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.