Tourism, Mobilities, and Development in Sparsely Populated Areas by Doris Carson Dean Carson Linda Lundmark

Author:Doris Carson, Dean Carson, Linda Lundmark [Doris Carson, Dean Carson, Linda Lundmark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138300132
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

The relative importance of the creative workforce in both municipalities is summarised in Table 7. Note that because of relatively small absolute numbers, the tourism sector is not divided by hotels and restaurant, and tourism and travel activities.

In-migrants constitute a substantial part of the creative workforce in the total labour market for both municipalities (Table 7). In Malung/Sälen, in-migrants represent almost half (48.1%) of the creative workforce in tourism; in Älvdalen, the share is about one-third (33.8%). In both cases, this share exceeds the corresponding figures for the rest of the labour market. This resembles the results in a study by McGranahan and Wojan (2007), who found a creative class concentration in rural areas within the service industries.

In-migrants identified as part of the “creative workforce” and employed in the rest of the labour market constitute about 25% in both municipalities. Since occupation is one of the criteria used in our study, entrepreneurs are included as well as long as they are employed as managers of their own companies. A difference between the two municipalities is the share of creative in-migrants working within tourism, as compared with creative in-migrants working within the rest of the LLM. In Malung/Sälen, the creative workforce constitutes 15.8% of the total workforce, as compared to 8.7% in the rest of the LLM. In Älvdalen, this share is 8.9% compared to 8.4% in the rest of the LLM. Another difference between the municipalities is the creative workforce’s share of employment within tourism and the rest of the LLM. One-third of all those employed in tourism were categorised as part of this category in Malung/Sälen, which is roughly on the same level as for the rest of the LLM. In Älvdalen, on the other hand, the workforce’s creative segment is smaller.

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