Title
Tourism
RIS ID
82051
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.
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.