Table of Contents

Introduction - the paradox of peripherality, Frances Brown and Derek Hall; perception from the periphery - the experience of Wales, R. Elwyn Owen, David Botterill et al; PACE - guiding rural tourism development in a fragile area, Marcus Grant; peripheries, artificial peripheries and centres, Julie Scott; tourist perception of the ultimate European periphery, Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen; farm accommodation and agricultural heritage in Orkney, John Gladstone and Angela Morris; the fall and rise of peripherality - tourism and restructuring on Bute, Steven Boyne, Derek Hall and Claire Gallagher; the evolution of tourism in the Tarna Mountains - arena and actors in a periphery, Nils Arell; tourism's role in new rural policy for peripheral areas - the case of Arjeplog, Per Ake Nilsson.

About the Author

Derek Hall is a Partner in Seabank Associates, and latterly Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK. He has extensive experience in the field of tourism and political geography. His recent publications include Tourism and Geopolitics: Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe (CABI, 2017).