PART I - INTRODUCTION: TOURISM AND GEOGRAPHY
Tourism Geography, 3rd edition
CHAPTER ABSTRACT & KEY CONCEPTS
Chapter 1 - Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism
Modern tourism is bringing Increasing numbers of tourists worldwide, both international and domestic, resulting in increasing social, economic and environmental impacts on at multiple geographic scales. Tourist motivations reflect a variety of needs and shape tourist decision making and behaviour. Tourism geography has evolved from being highly focused on place description in the earlier periods, whereas today the focus is more on understanding tourism development and the relationship between tourists and place, reflecting the rise in critical and cultural turns in geographic theory and research, including modernity, mobility, globalisation, production, consumption, identity, and sustainability.
Modern tourism is bringing Increasing numbers of tourists worldwide, both international and domestic, resulting in increasing social, economic and environmental impacts on at multiple geographic scales. Tourist motivations reflect a variety of needs and shape tourist decision making and behaviour. Tourism geography has evolved from being highly focused on place description in the earlier periods, whereas today the focus is more on understanding tourism development and the relationship between tourists and place, reflecting the rise in critical and cultural turns in geographic theory and research, including modernity, mobility, globalisation, production, consumption, identity, and sustainability.
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1. Geography
2. Globalization 3. Leisure 4. Mobility |
5. Recreation
6. Relational Geography 7. Sustainability |
8. Tourism
9. Tourism Inversions 10. Tourist Motivation |
CASE STUDIES
Chapter 1 - Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism
Chapter 1 - Tourism, geography and geographies of tourism
- CASE STUDY 1.1.1 - Globalisation and tourism in Guilin, China's urban landscape
- CASE STUDY 1.1.2 - Unregulated Tourism Development in Da Nang, Vietnam
What is a Critical Geography of Tourism?
Tourism is an intensely geographic phenomenon. It exists through the desire of people to move in search of embodied experience of other places as individuals and en mass, and at scales from the local to the global. Tourism creates distinctive relationships between people (as tourists) and the host spaces, places and people they visit. This, in turn, has significant implications for the geographies of destination development and resource use and exploitation.
Critical tourism geographies applies critical geography theory to tourism issues. Some of the major perspective of this approach include:
Tourism is an intensely geographic phenomenon. It exists through the desire of people to move in search of embodied experience of other places as individuals and en mass, and at scales from the local to the global. Tourism creates distinctive relationships between people (as tourists) and the host spaces, places and people they visit. This, in turn, has significant implications for the geographies of destination development and resource use and exploitation.
Critical tourism geographies applies critical geography theory to tourism issues. Some of the major perspective of this approach include:
- Tourism as a force for social change, exploitation and empowerment, including issues of commodification, consumption and place creation
- Social justice, environmental justice, and inequality in tourism, as seen in gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability
- Identity, exclusion and hegemony in postcolonial and heritage readings of tourism
- Activism, action research, sustainability and environmental change in tourism
CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE, GEOGRAPHY & TOURISM
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