Tourism Geographies,Tourist Studiesand the Turn towardsMobilities

Bibliographic Data

ID5877705
AuthorsKevin Hannam (0000-0001-6034-3521, University of Sunderland, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume2
Issue1
Pages127-139
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00079.x
OpenAlexW2091233136
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited76

Tourism is frequently acclaimed as one of the world's largest and most pervasive industries. Research into tourism has grown rapidly in recent years with many new books and journals appearing. In particular, this article notes that perhaps three new journals have marked the coming of age of tourism-related research, namely,Tourism Geographies,Tourist Studiesand finallyMobilities. While a great deal of other research has been published in books and journals and indeed many other new tourism journals have been started, this article utilises the start of these journals as benchmarks for a theoretical engagement with tourism research. This article thus begins by reviewing research into tourism geographies and focuses on work that has examined destination branding in the face of globalising processes. The article goes on to review research that has been concerned primarily with host-guest interactions in terms of tourist studies. Indeed, both residents and tourist's performances have been the focus of much contemporary research particularly by researchers who have begun to view tourism as increasingly constitutive of everyday life rather than being simply an escape from it. Finally, it is argued that the concept of mobilities helps us to understand global tourism in the context of other social and spatial travel processes

Economic geography · Everyday life · Geography · Mobilities · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Religious Tourism and Spaces