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Turkey beat Russia at women's IBSA Goalball European A Championship

Hosts Turkey edged a narrow contest against Russia in Pool C as two of
the favourites for the women's tournament met on the second day of the
International Blind Sports Federation Goalball European A
Championships in Samsun. ....

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Stereotypes have fueled a tourism boom in Europe's icy North. Can things change?

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
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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. ....

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Stereotypes have fueled a tourism boom in Europe's icy North. Can things change?

Stereotypes have fueled a tourism boom in Europe’s icy North. Can things change?
Karen Gardiner
© Photograph by Parkerphotography, Alamy Stock Photo
Tourists take a reindeer sleigh ride through Levi in Finnish Lapland, the ancestral home to the country’s nearly 10,000 Indigenous Sámi people.
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.
In recent years, dog sledding has become a symbol of Europe’s far north known as Sápmi to the nearly 100,000 Indigenous Sámi who live there. In fact, a 2018 report by Animal Tourism Finland found 4,000 huskies working in Finnish Lapland alone. The problem? “Dog sledding was borrowed from other cultures and transplanted to Lapland’s tourism scene in the 1980s,” says Tuomas Aslak Juuso, president of Finland’s Sámi ....

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