The book focuses on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences. It concentrates on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences.

Contributions by: Isabelle Guissard, Arild Røkenes, Line Mathisen, Sara Davoudi, Claes Högström, Bård Tronvoll, Johan Edelheim, Kjell Olsen, Laura J Lawton, Stein R Mathisen, Hans Anton Stubberud, Carsten Blom Ruud, Ming-Feng Huang, Chuanzhong Tang, Raija Komppula, Beate Bursta, Peter Fischer, Giovanna Bertella, Sølvi Lyngnes, Carl I Cater, Margaret E. Johnston, Elsa De Souza, R. Harvey Lemelin, Sergey Ilkevich, Per Strömberg, Peter Haugseth, Urban Wråkberg