1st Edition

Tourism Enclaves Geographies of Exclusive Spaces in Tourism

Edited By Jarkko Saarinen, Sandra Wall-Reinius Copyright 2021
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Exclusively planned tourism destinations have increased substantially over the last decades. As a result, gated leisure communities, all-inclusive resorts, private cruise liner-owned island and other tourism enclaves are rather common features in tourism, especially in the peripheries and low- and middle-income countries. Tourism enclaves can have varied characteristics and scales of operations... Read more

1. Enclaves in tourism: producing and governing exclusive spaces for tourism

Jarkko Saarinen and Sandra Wall-Reinius

2. ‘Islands within Islands?’ The Maldivian resort, between segregation and integration

Elena dell’Agnese

3. Does geography matter in all-inclusive resort tourism? Marketing approaches of Scandinavian tour operators

Sandra Wall-Reinius, Dimitri Ioannides and Kristina Zampoukos

4. Selling bubbles at sea: pleasurable enclosure or unwanted confinement?

Adam Weaver

5. Cruisers in the City of Helsinki: staging the mobility of cruise passengers

Kaisa Paananen and Paola Minoia

6. Airbnb as an instigator of ‘tourism bubble’ expansion in Utrecht's Lombok neighbourhood

Dimitri Ioannides, Michael Röslmaier and Egbert van der Zee

7. A place in the sun: the British housing market’s (de)construction of Andalusia

Miguel García Martín, Arsenio Villar Lama and Estrella Cruz Mazo

8. Topologies of tourism enclaves

Richard Ek and Mekonnen Tesfahuney

Conclusion: Geographies of exclusive spaces in tourism: Future issues

Jarkko Saarinen and Sandra Wall-Reinius

Biography

Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Sustainability Management) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability in tourism, tourism and climate change adaptation, tourism-community relations and nature conservation studies.

Sandra Wall-Reinius is Associate Professor of Human Geography at the Mid-Sweden University, Sweden, where she is also researcher at the European Tourism Research Institute. Her research interests relate to landscape research, nature conservation, sustainability in nature-based tourism, and the tourism-local communities interface.