The paper consists of four main parts. The first part gives an analysis of the sustainable tourism discourse. Two main axes of understanding are presented; intensity problems versus volume problems on one axis, and stationary activities versus mobile activities on the other. The prevailing understanding of the concept of sustainable tourism mostly as a matter of stationary activities and intensity problems raises several issues for further analysis and discussion. One is that there is no tourism without travel and transport - or mobility and mobile activities as are the terms applied. This of course also requires a focus on the mobile activities in tourism, not least as transport is a major cause of the most serious environmental problems, both as intensity and volume problems. The second part of the paper elucidates - with Norway as a case - how transport on the one hand and leisure time activities and tourism on the other have grown like Siamese twins all through modem history. The main aspects in the European discourse on sustainable mobility are presented in the third part. Some of the aspects highlighted are the needs to develop public transport in general and rail transport in particular, thus also tourism based on these transport systems. The last part gives a typology of how sustainable transport may become a road to sustainable tourism, and some examples of how this has been carried out in some European countries.
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Høyer, K. G. (2004). From sustainable mobility to sustainable tourism. Sustainable Tourism, 285–294. Retrieved from www.witpress.com
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