Reconsidering the Geography of Tourism and Contemporary Mobility

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ID5877355
AuthorsC M Hall (0000-0002-7734-4587, University of Otago, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume43
Issue2
Pages125-139
Publication date2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-5871.2005.00308.x
OpenAlexW2169095311
LanguageEN
Citations received73

Tourism is one of the world's largest legal industries. At the same time that tourism has grown so has its study, to the extent that there is debate as to whether it may constitute a discipline in its own right. Geographers have long contributed to the study of tourism. However, there is substantial concern over the development of the sub-discipline and how tourism is conceptualised. A framework for understanding tourism in relation to contemporary human mobility over space and time is provided. This framework bears strong relationships to research on time geography as well as to work on diaspora and transnationalism. Some of the implications of incorporating tourism within the framework of mobility are outlined with respect to mobility as a form of capital, the relationships between different forms of mobility, and an improved understanding of tourism's impacts at all stages of the travel process rather than just at the destination

Diaspora · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Human geography · Mobilities · Political science · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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