Dieter K Müller
Dieter K. Müller holds a PhD from Umeå University and is now employed as professor. Currently, he is Deputy Vice-chancellor, Umeå University, with special responsibility for research and research education within the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Müller has research interests with respect to tourism and regional development, mobility and tourism in peripheral areas. His research interests specifically include almost all aspects of second homes and second home related mobility, Sami tourism, nature-based tourism, tourism labor markets, regional development and rural change particularly in Northern peripheries and Polar areas.
Dieter K. Müller is the chair of International Geographical Union’s Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change and chairperson of the board of the Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University (ARCUM). Moreover, Müller is one of the editors for Geographies of Tourism and Global Change, a book series published by Springer, and Resource editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Also, he serves on the editorial board of Current Issues in Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Matkailututkimus – The Finnish Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism and Hospitality Management and the Croatian Geographical Bulletin
Müller has research interests with respect to tourism and regional development, mobility and tourism in peripheral areas. His research interests specifically include almost all aspects of second homes and second home related mobility, Sami tourism, nature-based tourism, tourism labor markets, regional development and rural change particularly in Northern peripheries and Polar areas.
Dieter K. Müller is the chair of International Geographical Union’s Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change and chairperson of the board of the Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University (ARCUM). Moreover, Müller is one of the editors for Geographies of Tourism and Global Change, a book series published by Springer, and Resource editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Also, he serves on the editorial board of Current Issues in Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Matkailututkimus – The Finnish Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism and Hospitality Management and the Croatian Geographical Bulletin
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social knowledge that portrays the Sámi people as “exotic others” in the global and domestic tourism industry, others show that tourism can also be an opportunity to challenge such a view. Second, these news narratives demonstrate how the ethno-political discourses are intertwined in the social relations between tourism and other natural-resource-based industries. Third, an everchanging social identity construction shows that, with the changing role of reindeer herding in t he Sámi identity, how tourism assists or challenges this association is becoming increasingly important.
with endless development possibilities. This paper studies how a development proposal is implemented among the stakeholders by seeking to create positive expectations. With a point of departure in stakeholder theory and interdiscursive analysis, this study explores the role of discourse in stakeholder dynamics and engagement. The results of this study show that implementation is not merely a marketing process, but different opinions will emerge that may contest the “official” discourse, and that the outcomes of the implementation strategy may be hard to control unless the “official” discourse is consciously elaborated to adapt to these counter-discourses.
KEY WORDS: Stakeholder theory, event tourism, discourse, legitimate stakeholders, “co-creation”, Umeå, ECOC 2014, bid for events
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social knowledge that portrays the Sámi people as “exotic others” in the global and domestic tourism industry, others show that tourism can also be an opportunity to challenge such a view. Second, these news narratives demonstrate how the ethno-political discourses are intertwined in the social relations between tourism and other natural-resource-based industries. Third, an everchanging social identity construction shows that, with the changing role of reindeer herding in t he Sámi identity, how tourism assists or challenges this association is becoming increasingly important.
with endless development possibilities. This paper studies how a development proposal is implemented among the stakeholders by seeking to create positive expectations. With a point of departure in stakeholder theory and interdiscursive analysis, this study explores the role of discourse in stakeholder dynamics and engagement. The results of this study show that implementation is not merely a marketing process, but different opinions will emerge that may contest the “official” discourse, and that the outcomes of the implementation strategy may be hard to control unless the “official” discourse is consciously elaborated to adapt to these counter-discourses.
KEY WORDS: Stakeholder theory, event tourism, discourse, legitimate stakeholders, “co-creation”, Umeå, ECOC 2014, bid for events
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