{"id":69,"date":"2019-03-05T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T08:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogi.eoppimispalvelut.fi\/arctisen\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:20:39","slug":"why-arctisen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogi.eoppimispalvelut.fi\/arctisen\/2019\/03\/05\/why-arctisen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ARCTISEN?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief history of the use of S\u00e1mi cultures in Finnish tourism business<\/strong><\/p>\n

Text: Monika L\u00fcthje<\/p>\n

Due to the Finnish school system curricula and government strategies, which aimed at incorporating minorities into mainstream cultural majority, as well as the modernisation of the North, S\u00e1mi identities became weaker during the decades after the Second World War. During this period, S\u00e1mi assimilation to Finnish culture and society accelerated more and more. At the same time, increasing numbers of tourists travelled to Lapland. They were expecting to see S\u00e1mi during their visit the same ways as the S\u00e1mi were portrayed in the travel brochures. On spot the S\u00e1mi and their cultures were, however, not visible \u2018enough\u2019 to the tourists.<\/p>\n

In order to satisfy the tourists coming to Lapland, the Finnish tourism industry started selling its own versions of S\u00e1mi cultures. These versions appeared in advertising, they were sold in the form of Lapland souvenirs, and Finnish tourism entrepreneurs and workers dressed in S\u00e1mi costumes impersonating S\u00e1mi. The same continues even today.<\/p>\n

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The S\u00e1mi costumes are the most visible sign of somebody being a S\u00e1mi. For the S\u00e1mi, they are an important expression of their cultural identity \u2013 for the tourists, a colourful, exotic attraction. Here the costumes are on display in a museum, with nobody inside them. Some tourists seem to treat the S\u00e1mi wearing their costumes in the same way as they do with these empty costumes: as objects that can be gazed at and photographed freely.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many S\u00e1mi have criticised the touristic versions of their cultures created by the tourism business. For decades, the tourism industry has given a false image of them, a picture of a primitive, exotic and mystic tribe with which they do not want to associate. Moreover, the tourism industry has benefitted economically from this distorted image for a long time.<\/p>\n

The S\u00e1mi Parliament aims at S\u00e1mi tourism that is managed and owned by the S\u00e1mi and based on real S\u00e1mi people and cultures. Today, more and more S\u00e1mi are working with tourism and running their own tourism businesses. S\u00e1mi identities are stronger. However, non-S\u00e1mi tourism companies are still selling the tourists their distorted versions of S\u00e1mi cultures.<\/p>\n

It is in this context that we have planned the ARCTISEN project, knowing that Indigenous peoples face similar problems with tourism also elsewhere. We want to contribute in changing this situation by creating tourism that is in harmony with the local cultures and with the desires and wishes of the local people. You are welcome to follow us!<\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/p>\n

L\u00fcthje, Monika (1998). The impacts of tourism on Saami domicile area from the point of view of carrying capacity and Saami culture of the area. In Seppo Aho, Heli Ilola & Jari J\u00e4rviluoma (eds.), Dynamic aspects in tourism development. Proceedings of the 5th<\/sup> Nordic Symposium on Tourism Research<\/em>. Volume 1 (pp. 31\u201346). Lapin yliopiston matkailun julkaisuja. B. Tutkimusraportteja ja selvityksi\u00e4 3. Rovaniemi: University of Lapland.<\/p>\n

Saamelaisk\u00e4r\u00e4j\u00e4t [S\u00e1mi Parliament] (2018). Vastuullisen ja eettisesti kest\u00e4v\u00e4n saamelaismatkailun toimintaperiaatteet. [Principles of responsible and ethically sustainable S\u00e1mi tourism.] Retrived February 27, 2019 from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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