Tourism Planning and Management of Canada's Northern Territories

Tourism development in the North is one of the tools for the new management of the northern territories of Canada which is impossible without its regulation both by the state and local authorities. Tourism development in the North depends on the degree of the territory development which influences the management of the infrastructure, as well as on the government regulation. Spatial differences of Canada’s northern territories in the latitudinal and meridional directions determine the specificfeatures of the land management and the development of tourism. It was proved that the development of the tourist market in the northern territories leads to a change in the functioning of this sector, and this new modelcan combine effective market mechanisms and traditional ways of natural resources use being part ofthe specific entrepreneurial resources of the North (cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, indigenous communities, etc).