Tourism

Authors

Chris Gibson, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

82051

Publication Details

Gibson, C. (2013). Tourism. In N. C. Johnson, R. H. Schein & J. Winders (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography (pp. 465-477). Malden, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Abstract

This chapter takes a trip through cultural geographical work on tourism. Before we depart, I wish to clarify that, like coles et al. (2006), I do not see disciplines as natural "home" for particular questions or paradigms. The geographical does, however, mark a particular neighborhood of inquiry - a place that fosters certain kinds of research being done (Mee, 2006). It is in this light that I consider tourism within cultural geography - as simply something about which cultural geographers embark on generating new knowledge. In this chapter I am interested in how geographies of tourism have been done, to what effect and how these have been situated and mediated.