Developing scenarios for the Norwegian travel industry 2025. Article in Journal of Tourism Futures. By: Anniken Enger, Kåre Sandvik og Endre Kildal Iversen
Purpose – The Norwegian travel industry faces decline in important international tourism segments and
needs an industry wide and future-oriented strategy to face these challenges. Accordingly, a common
understanding of future drivers and different scenarios for the industry is needed.
Design/methodology/approach – Using the process of scenario analysis and drawing on the
involvement of the tourism industry, this paper describes the method, drivers, scenarios, and
implications.
Findings – The research identified six important drivers with predictable outcomes: uneven global
economic development, digitalization, climate change, consumer demand – return on time,
centralization, and demography. The Norwegian economy and Norwegian politics were the two
drivers that stood out as the most significant for the tourism industry, with a very uncertain outcome, and
constituted the two axes of the scenarios. This resulted in four scenarios: Money rules, The urban
diamond, Opportunities for
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