Others are concerned about the negative effect of tourists on the mountain environment. This paper brings together information from existing sources to help understand this complex system. The remaining areas are declining. There has generally been a decline in the number of guest nights in mountain huts and stations during the same period. Tourist activity in the mountains is uneven.
Foreign tourism is minimal.
Fewer than 1 percent of the commercial overnight stays, are from visitors who live outside Europe. Only four percent of the overnights are visitors who live outside of Scandinavia. There has been a slight increase commercial tourism since 1988, but there are large yearly variations. We are still in the process of collecting data in an effort to understand both the current status of tourism and its prospects for the future in the mountain area of Sweden.