Editors

About the Editor

Dieter K. Müller holds a PhD from Umeå University, Sweden, and there he is now employed as professor. Currently, he is Deputy Vice-chancellor of the university. From 2012 to 2020 he has served as chairperson for the IGU Commission Geography, Leisure and Global Change. Müller has research interests with respect to tourism and regional development, mobility and tourism in peripheral areas. His research interests specifically include almost all aspects of second homes and second home related mobility, Sami tourism, nature-based tourism, tourism labor markets, regional development and rural change particularly in Northern peripheries and Polar areas.

Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visitor Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability and responsibility in tourism, tourism-community relations, tourism and climate change, community-based natural resource management and wilderness studies. Geographically his research focuses on northern and Arctic regions and southern Africa. In addition to the Book Series, he is Editor for the Tourism Geographies and Associate Editor for the Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Ecotourism. 

Carolin Funck holds a PhD from Freiburg University (Germany). She is professor for human geography at Hiroshima University (Japan), Hiroshima University Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the development of tourism in Japan and the rejuvenation of mature tourist destinations; recent research projects focused on inbound tourism in Japan, innovation in tourism, dark tourism and island tourism. Local development and citizen participation are her second theme of interest.