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With the growth of tourism, impacts of tourism development have become more and more visible in society. There have been calls from researchers to examine the whole array of impacts and not stop at economic impacts which have previously been the custom. This goes in line with the increased focus on sustainable tourist development where economic impacts are considered alongside sociocultural and environmental impacts.This thesis develops and applies a framework based on sustainable tourism development in order to evaluate economic, sociocultural and environmental impacts. A case study of Kiruna and Jukkasjärvi (site of the Icehotel) in Northern Sweden serves as the empirical example where a direct flight from London has recently opened up and increased the number of visitors.The Triple Bottom Line-model (TBL) is chosen as the most suitable framework. Adapting and developing this framework and linking it to other theoretical concepts such as Carrying Capacities and Capital constructs is one of the thesis’ contribution.Moreover, the empirical results work as a test of the framework as well as a contribution to the discussion on the sustainability of tourism development.The results show that TBL is a step forward when doing more holistic evaluations of tourism impacts, but more research is needed in order to find ways of comparing the results of the different impact dimensions. Being able to measure, describe and understand tourism impacts, other than economic, also helps destinations and tourism developers plan and execute steps in tourism development which is more sustainable.
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