Urban tourism in the wilderness city Whitehorse, Yukon (Canada)
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2020
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de la Barre, Suzanne
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Abstract
The City of Whitehorse is located in Canada’s northwestern most territory, Yukon,
and is a “small city in a big place”. Accordingly, many of its urban characteristics are
similar to those of cities found in other circumpolar regions, and it shares many
similar roles and functions as a core center located in a periphery that has been, and
remains, significantly defined in relation to a vast natural resource extraction region.
The following section of this report will examine urban Arctic tourism in relation to
the City of Whitehorse.
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This case study was originally published as: de la Barre, S. (2020). Urban tourism in the wilderness city Whitehorse, Yukon (Canada). In Müller, D.K., Carson, D.A., de la Barre, S., Granås, B., Jóhannesson, G.T., Øyen, G., Rantala, O., Saarinen, J., Salmela, T., Tervo-Kankare, K., & Welling, J. Arctic tourism in times of change: Dimensions of urban tourism (pp. 28-40). Nordic Council of Ministers. DOI: 10.6027/temanord2020-529