1st Edition

Tourism Spaces Environments, Locations, and Movements

Edited By Alan A. Lew Copyright 2022
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Geographic space is a fundamental and essential construct of the physical reality within which we live, move, and construct our world. Through space we create ‘others’ (anything that is any distance from ‘us’) and we experience time (by moving from one place point to another). Because it is so fundamental to our experience, we often take geographic space for granted. Tourism Spaces:... Read more

Introduction

Alan A. Lew

1. Spatial arrangements of tourist villages: implications for the integration of residents and tourists

Dawid Soszyński, Barbara Sowińska-Świerkosz, Patricia A. Stokowski and Andrzej Tucki

2. Selecting the best route in a theme park through multi-objective programming

Beatriz Rodríguez-Díaz and Juan Ignacio Pulido-Fernández

3. Pattern of Chinese tourist flows in Japan: a Social Network Analysis perspective

Bindan Zeng

4. Understanding visitors’ spatial behavior: a review of spatial applications in parks

Geoffrey K. Riungu, Brian A. Peterson, John A. Beeco and Greg Brown

5. Leveraging physical and digital liminoidal spaces: the case of the #EATCambridge festival

Michael Duignan, Sally Everett, Lewis Walsh and Nicola Cade

6. Proximate tourists and major sport events in everyday leisure spaces

Katherine King, Richard Shipway, Insun Sunny Lee and Graham Brown

7. Big data and tourism geographies – an emerging paradigm for future study?

Jie Zhang

8. The impact of distance on tourism: a tourism geography law

Bob McKercher

9. Sensing tourists: geoinformatics and the future of tourism geography research

Noam Shoval

10. The more-than-visual experiences of tourism

Tim Edensor

11. The end of tourism? A Gibson-Graham inspired reflection on the tourism economy

Patrick Brouder

Biography

Alan A. Lew is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Planning at Northern Arizona University. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), and has primarily researched and written about tourism development and landscapes of East and Southeast Asia.