1st Edition

New Research Paradigms in Tourism Geography

Edited By Alan A. Lew Copyright 2015
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of papers from Tourism Geographies emphasizes new and emerging research paradigms in the geographic study of tourism. The papers included in this collection follow one of two threads: explicitly supporting specific research frameworks, or implicitly presenting new and emerging theoretical perspectives through empirical research on the geographical topics. These begin with... Read more

1. Introduction to the new Tourism Geographies  RESEARCH FRONTIERS  2. Evolutionary economic geography: a new path for tourism studies?  3. What’s political ecology got to do with tourism?  4. Scale, change and resilience in community tourism planning  5. Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: perspectives beyond 2015  6. Using indicators to assess sustainable tourism development: a review  RESEARCH ARTICLES  7. Towards an economic-geographical approach to the globalisation of the hotel industry  8. Understanding tourist encounters with nature: a thematic framework  9. Measuring tourist activities in cities using geotagged photography  10. Typologies of tourists’ time–space consumption: a new approach using GPS data and GIS tools  11. Linking tourism, retirement migration and social capital  12. Tourism and toponymy: commodifying and consuming place names

Biography

Alan A. Lew is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation at Northern Arizona University where he teaches courses in geography, urban planning and tourism. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Tourism Geographies journal and has published several books on geography and tourism, including Tourism Geography, 3rd edition, with Stephen Williams. His interests and writings focus on tourism across East and Southeast Asia.