Today, nine out of ten municipalities are active on social media and it has become increasingly popular among municipalities that make use of Placemarketing to promote their particular region. A problem that is raised in this study is that the population of the municipalities in northern Sweden often is in decline. The purpose of this study is to investigate how a democratic-controlled organization such as Luleå Municipality uses the social media Facebook in its Placemarketing, to highlight a place of scale and to attract new residents and stakeholders to move to or visit the city. In order to answer the purpose I have with the help of a critical discourse analysis examined how Luleå Municipality using social media Facebook in their marketing of Luleå as a place. The results were then analyzed using theories of Placemarketing, Norrland and the market-oriented municipality.

Turismnäringen betraktas idag som världens största näringsgren och World Tourism Organisation förutspår att näringen kommer att fortsätta växa i framtiden. Turismnäringens omsättning är betydelsefull då den bidrar med sysselsättning och arbetstillfällen. Den svenska turismpolitiken har till mål att skapa en hög attraktionskraft för Sverige som turistland samt en turistnäring med långsiktig konkurrenskraft. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vad som skapar en turistattraktion, samt på vilket sätt det går att varugöra den och sälja den till turister. Uppsatsen syftar ytterligare till att ta reda på hur kommunerna i Örebro län arbetar med turismutveckling i syfte att skapa och utveckla turistattraktioner. Jag har försökt hitta samband mellan tidigare forskning och enkät- och intervjusvaren för att uppsatsens syfte ska uppfyllas.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and investigate how the consumer-oriented commerce can be developed and integrated to the brand Västervik.This thesis has a qualitative approach and we have done a case study of the Swedish city Västervik. We have performed interviews, with eight selected respondents who have different backgrounds, but with competence in different problem areas that we investigate in this thesis.We have, in this qualitative thesis, found aspects that Västervik should consider if they want to succeed with an integration of commerce in the brand. We have through a model found common facets that commerce and tourism shares and which Västervik should consider in the process of branding the city.The results of this thesis are presented in chapter six, there we also have featured reappearing tendencies that consider the development of commerce and how the commerce could be integrated in the brand Västervik..

The centre of attention in this essay is on public-private-partnerships in Swedish city planning. It discusses the phenomenon and tries to identify the problems and possibilities that may appear when private and public actors are trying to work together to plan new cities or parts of cities in a process with network structures. The main questions that is asked is ?what vision for the city can we se, and who's vision is it?? together with the question of where the actual power to make the city plan and the vision can be find. The soon-to-be-built area Ulriksdal in Stockholm were Peab AB and Solna Stad stands as main actors has been chosen to illustrate the possible problems and is analysed from different angles, but the writers intention is also to say something on the matter in general.

The last years trends of increasing globalisation and the decreasing importance of the nationstate has led to rising flows of travellers and information throughout the globe. This has affected the competition between destinations; they are now competing in a global market. The importance of Placemarketing and representing a place identity, is today essential to attract customers from around the world. The purpose of this essay was to examine how Iceland as a place is represented through the photographs in horse tourism. The research questions asked were: How is the Icelandic landscape represented in photographs? How is people and horses represented in the landscape? And how can the horse be analysed as a part of the Icelandic landscape? The method used for research was image-analysis, a qualitative approach where horse tourism-websites and photographs on these websites were strategically selected.