Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002Tourism is the fastest growing industry in the North. As a dynamic industry, tourism may exert powerful, often unforeseen pressures on the cultures, economies, resources, and landscapes of host communities. As a popular tourist corridor in the North, the Alaska Highway is enshrouded in a mythology based on frontier, hardship, and wilderness images. However, an examination of the Alaska Highway reveals that the tourism landscape contradicts this mythology. Indeed the tourism landscape is in the process of becoming commercial and homogenous in nature. While distinction in landscape is noted as a primary motivation for Alaska Highway travellers, more importantly, distinction is identified as a ...
Graduation date: 2012Increasingly popular methods for managing impacts of tourism in nature-based se...
"What is the economic contribution of wilderness and wilderness-protected ecosystems to Alaska’s eco...
Construction of the Alaska Highway was considered as early as 1929. Interest was stimulated by Highw...
Tourism is one of the world\u27s largest and fastest growing industries. Developing regions seek to ...
The growth of international tourism has made the industry the dominant force in the world economy an...
In the past several decades, scholarly research has simultaneously expanded in three research areas:...
The Alaska Highway, conceived and constructed in the early 1940's as a strategic military link and s...
As recreation and tourism visitation increases and government budgets decrease, public land manageme...
Opinions with respect to whether it is in the public interest to construct roads into wilderness are...
Since the early 20th century various schemes were considered for the construction of roads, trails o...
Healy, the gateway community to Denali National Park and Preserve, has experienced an increasing del...
This work examines the roadhouses of the Richardson Highway, a collection of 30 to 40 establishmen...
The State of Alaska is located in the north-western North America. Its area of 1 717 854 km2 is popu...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2013On the coasts of the United States, dense human pop...
Many tourism destination managers know who their visitors are and how they are perceived by them. Ho...
Graduation date: 2012Increasingly popular methods for managing impacts of tourism in nature-based se...
"What is the economic contribution of wilderness and wilderness-protected ecosystems to Alaska’s eco...
Construction of the Alaska Highway was considered as early as 1929. Interest was stimulated by Highw...
Tourism is one of the world\u27s largest and fastest growing industries. Developing regions seek to ...
The growth of international tourism has made the industry the dominant force in the world economy an...
In the past several decades, scholarly research has simultaneously expanded in three research areas:...
The Alaska Highway, conceived and constructed in the early 1940's as a strategic military link and s...
As recreation and tourism visitation increases and government budgets decrease, public land manageme...
Opinions with respect to whether it is in the public interest to construct roads into wilderness are...
Since the early 20th century various schemes were considered for the construction of roads, trails o...
Healy, the gateway community to Denali National Park and Preserve, has experienced an increasing del...
This work examines the roadhouses of the Richardson Highway, a collection of 30 to 40 establishmen...
The State of Alaska is located in the north-western North America. Its area of 1 717 854 km2 is popu...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2013On the coasts of the United States, dense human pop...
Many tourism destination managers know who their visitors are and how they are perceived by them. Ho...
Graduation date: 2012Increasingly popular methods for managing impacts of tourism in nature-based se...
"What is the economic contribution of wilderness and wilderness-protected ecosystems to Alaska’s eco...
Construction of the Alaska Highway was considered as early as 1929. Interest was stimulated by Highw...