2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the recent developments, conceptual, theoretical, and empirical debates, and critical issues in this field of study.
Reflecting on and building from its original aim of rethinking geographical approaches to tourism, the volume explores contemporary tourism contexts and concepts, as marked by the present era of polycrises, setting out renewed and reoriented perspectives on tourism geographies into the mid-2020s. Across its diverse range of contributions, the Handbook navigates the complexities of tourism as a shifting construct, situating tourism geographies within the socio-spatial, economic and environmental implications of tourism, leisure and mobilities in the new contexts of global change, ecological transition and digital transformation. The volume aims to provide a nuanced and detailed analysis of established and emerging discourses and debates within tourism geographies, underscoring the field’s inherent criticality and ideal positioning for understanding and catalysing complex global and local scenarios in contemporary tourism, leisure and mobilities.
Written by leading scholars in the tourism geographies field, this text is an invaluable resource for students, researchers and scholars working in the areas of tourism, geography and related disciplines, encouraging dialogue across areas of study.
Part 1. Introduction
1. Keeping Pace with the Evolution of Tourism Geographies within Space, Place, Society and Environment
Julie Wilson and Dieter K. Müller
2. The Tourism-Geographies Nexus
Dieter K. Müller and C. Michael Hall
3. Geographies of Tourism and Development: Facing 21st Century Challenges
Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz
Part 2. Critical Geographies of Tourism
4. Critical Theories and Sustainable Tourism Futures
Paolo Mura and Sarah Wijesinghe
5. Tourism and Degrowth: Beyond the Capitalist Growth Imperative
Macià Blázquez-Salom, Ivan Murray, Robert Fletcher, Filka Sekulova,
Asunción Blanco-Romero and Ernest Cañada
6. Alterity, Mobility and Territory: Conceptualising Tourism Space in a World in Flux
Dominic Lapointe
7. Assemblage Tourism Geographies
Helen Briassoulis
8. Critical Studies of Gender Equality and Sustainable Development in Tourism Geographies
Xu Honggang and Fan XiaoJun
9. Tourism, Place, Space and Queer Sexuality
Gustav Visser
10. Performativity, Space and Tourism
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson
11. Embodied Encounters in Tourism Geographies Research
Phoebe Everingham, Pau Obrador and Hazel Tucker
Part 3. Place Perspectives on Tourism Geographies
12. Landscape Perspectives on Tourism Geographies
Theano Terkenli
13. Place Making and Unmaking in Tourism
T.C. Chang
14. Rural Creative Tourism Geography for Community Revitalisation
Meng Qu
15. Geographies of Festival and Event Spaces and Places
Bernadette Quinn
16. Tourism and Urbanisation Processes: Towards an Encounter between Tourism Geographies and Urban Theory?
Mathis Stock and Valérian Geffroy
17. Historical Geographies of Tourism and Heritage
Dallen J. Timothy
Part 4. Sustainability Transitions in Tourism Geographies
18. Sustainability and Geographies of Tourism
Jarkko Saarinen
19. Geographies of Tourism and the Anthropocene
Edward H. Huijbens
20. Tourism and Socio-ecological Systems: A Geographical Approach
Rannveig Ólafsdóttir and Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir
21. The Changing Geography of Tourism in a Climate-Disrupted World
Natalie L. B. Knowles and Daniel Scott
22. The Footprint of Responsibility in Tourism Destinations: The Role of Governance
Dora Papatheochari, Spiros Niavis and Harry Cocossis
23. Regenerative Tourism in the Making: Reflections About an Emerging Frontier for Tourism Geographies
Loretta Bellato, Niki Frantzeskaki and Christian A. Nygaard
24. Political Ecologies of Tourism: Key Issues and Research Prospects
Jarkko Saarinen and Sanjay Nepal
Part 5. Digital Transformation, Platform Economy and Tourism Geographies
25. Digital Tourism Geographies
Maartje Roelofsen
26. Geographies of Exclusion in ‘Smart’ Tourism Places: Towards a Critical Research Agenda
Antonio Paolo Russo and Josep Antoni Ivars Baidal
27. Anxiety, Fear and Violence: Capitalist Configurations and the Surveillance of Tourism Spaces
Katie D. Dudley
28. The Platform Economy as a Game Changer for Tourism Geographies
Egbert van der Zee
Part 6. Geographies of Tourism Mobilities
29. Tourism and (Im)mobilities: During and Post-Pandemic
Maria Thulemark and Tara Duncan
30. Digital Nomadism and Tourism Mobilities
Olga Hannonen
31. Tourism Mobilities and Urban Change: Geographies of Transnational Gentrification
Franz Buhr and Agustín Cocola-Gant
32. The Messiness of Tourism and Transportation Geographies
David Timothy Duvall and John MaCilree
33. Time Geography and Tourism
Noam Shoval
Part 7. Economic, Entrepreneurship and Business Perspectives on Tourism Geographies
34. Hidden in Plain Sight: Evolving Geographies of Business Innovation and Tourism
Tim Coles
35. Making Sense of Tourism Entrepreneurship as the Nexus between Entrepreneurs and their Spatial Environment
Dimitri Ioannides and Jonathan Yachin
36. Tourism and Economic Geography: An Evolving Agenda
Dimitri Ioannides and Patrick Brouder
Part 8. Challenges for the Future of Tourism Geographies Education
37. Toward Strategy Development for Tourism Geographies Education using TOWS Matrix
Velvet Nelson
Part 9. Conclusions
38. Tourism Geographies for the 2020s
Dieter K. Müller and Julie Wilson
Biography
Julie Wilson is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and the current Chair of the Tourism, Leisure and Global Change Commission of the International Geographical Union (IGU). Her research interests focus on the analysis of tourism impacts and the socio-spatial transformation of urban/rural landscapes, the role of culture and creativity in the generation of new forms of sustainability in tourism, geographies of the platform economy and evolutionary economic geography as interpretative frameworks for sustainable tourism topics.
Dieter K. Müller is Professor of Human Geography, Umeå University Sweden and a former chair of the IGU Commission of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change. His research addresses the geographies of second homes and the relationship between tourism and regional change in northern peripheries. Furthermore he has an interest in the institutional development of tourism geographies.
“Twelve years after the first Handbook, leading researchers from around the world have compiled an impressive update on research trends in tourism geographies. Key geographical concepts such as space, place, environment, sustainability and mobility provide a powerful framework for examining a wide range of issues related to tourism. The innovative and comprehensive approach will help us to imagine a more diverse, socially and environmentally just world of tourism.”
-Professor Carolin Funck, Hiroshima University, Japan.
“Global travel is radically affecting places, people and ecosystems. The new Handbook is not just an update of the original text from 2012, but a comprehensive and much-needed sequel which provides critically evocative perspectives on tourism-related transformations in the Anthropocene. The Editors have curated a compelling collection of original and theoretically novel contributions to uncover the contemporary geographies of tourism and mobilities. This is a much welcome volume pushing the boundaries of tourism social science.”
-Dr. Szilvia Gyimóthy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
“This new Handbook of Tourism Geographies delivers a rich, authoritative collection of cutting-edge chapters by leading authors in the field. It provides a contemporary perspective on the development and future of the field and is a must have reference book for researchers, teachers and students of tourism geographies. It will become a classic in its field.”
-Professor Chris Cooper, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK.
