Sweden reveals the staggering variety of the area´s experiences, includes a section on the region´s history and culture and offers detailed maps of both the coastline and the cities. Centrally located within Scandinavia, west Sweden is quickly developing as a vibrant tourist location, and in 2012 there were over 3.5 million guest nights in Gothenburg. The author, James Proctor, has written Bradt guides to Lapland and the Faroe Islands and has visited Scandinavia annually since 1986.