Contested Coastal Commercialisation:
Marine Fishing Tourism in Norway
Trude Borch
Norut Northern Research Institute, Norway
trude.borch@norut.no
Abstract Coasts have throughout history been popular areas for nature-based recreational tourism and with an overall increase in global travel many coastal communities are now experiencing a fast growth in tourism activities. The development of coastal tourism represents a new challenge relating to the management of coastal areas and marine resources as well as adding to the level of stakeholder conflicts in the coastal zone. This is currently the situation in Norway, a coastal nation experiencing a steady increase in marine fishing tourism activities. This article presents an analysis of the discourse on sustainability on marine fishing tourism following in wake of this increase and it presents the regulatory framework which has been suggested as a result of this discourse. From this analysis it is concluded that present attempts at regulating marine fishing tourism in Norway are more a result of political pressure to regulate the activity than a thorough process of evaluating what would be the best regulatory framework.
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