Stereotypes have fueled a tourism boom in Europe’s icy North. Can things change?
For decades, tourist experiences such as dog sledding have told a false narrative of Indigenous Sámi traditions.
Tourists take a reindeer sleigh ride through Levi in Finnish Lapland, the ancestral home to the country’s nearly 10,000 Indigenous Sámi people.Photograph by Parkerphotography, Alamy Stock Photo
ByKaren Gardiner
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Winter visitors arriving in Arctic Europe are presented with a bucket list of activities, from chasing the northern lights to cross-country skiing and, increasingly, racing through the snow on a sled pulled by a team of huskies.