Historiska återspeglingar
En studie om svensk turismhistoria genom fallstudier på Åre och Mölle
The idea of this thesis emerged from our common interest to explore the life cycle of Swedish tourist destinations. This study has historical features since we tried to identify crucial historical and current push and pull factors, which influenced destinations upturns and downturns. In order to achieve our primary goal and identify those factors, we made two case studies. We chose Åre and Mölle as our cases and these two areas will represent Swedish destinations, and their life cycles, as a whole. The destinations? developing processes and their nowadays profile are not the same as for two hundred years ago which was a reason and motivation that made us start exploring this specific subject. It required an extensive historical overview and presentation of both global and local changes, which had a certain impact on the destinations.The method that we used is called hermeneutic and is based on comprehension and interpretation as the essential form of knowledge. This method gave us ability to interpret the presented facts with the help of our own knowledge about the subject. This specially concerns our applied models and the case studies that are implemented.In the analysis we presented our identified dominant factors that influenced our chosen destinations and summarised influences that have affected Swedish tourism through the history. At the end of this essay we presented our own conclusions and thoughts, which turned out to be a bit different than what was expected. We hope that our conclusions can help other students or scientists in their future researches within the same issue.