The purpose of this paper is to analyze visitor's mobility perception using data collected by the PPGIS method and discuss how it can be used in planning at a tourism destination. Traditionally, planning has been expert-based dominated by rational thinking and less involvement of the public. However, expert-based planning has been criticised as being an elite process excluding the view of the majority. Thus, deliberate efforts have since been made to broaden public engagement in policymaking, empowerment, and decision-making processes. For example, town hall meetings where the public gives their opinion to inform public planning. Nevertheless, methods that require the physical presence of participants and possible active engagement are often perceived as demanding. The past decades' development in technology has opened the possibility for using digital tools such as Public participation GIS (PPGIS). PPGIS is the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to broaden public engagement in planning and management practices.
Thus, this PPGIS study was done in collaboration with stakeholders in Sälenfjällen, the largest ski tourism destination in Sweden. Findings from the study indicate PPGIS as an effective way of getting spatially explicit data to inform better decision-making in destination management and planning. However, there are still challenges in areas like data collection, sampling, and quality of the data gathered from the public and its use in planning. The study adds to a growing literature exploring the use of PPGIS in the field of tourism and recreation (e.g., Brown and Weber, 2013; Wolf et al., 2018; Munro et al., 2020) and is to our knowledge among the first to use it in a tourism-transport context in a Nordic case study.