Showing papers on "Tourism geography published in 2021"

Tourism Geography through the Lens of Time Use: A Computational Framework Using Fine-Grained Mobile Phone Data

Abstract: Location-aware technologies and big data are transforming the ways we capture and analyze human activities. This has particularly affected tourism geography, which aims to study tourist activities ...

Fostering constructive thinking about the ‘wicked problems’ of team-work and decision-making in tourism and geography

Abstract: Geocapabilities developed during team project-based fieldwork add value to Tourism Geography service modules in professional Tourism and Hospitality Management curricula This article is based on a

La geografía del turismo y la geografía de los animales intersectadas por la ética poshumanista

Abstract: In contemporary academic thought, tourism geography and animal geography find themselves intersected by post-humanist ethics —i.e., the philosophical consideration of the equality between human and non-human animals—. Based on a methodology of discourse analysis, this article focuses on the revelations by post-humanist animal geography that the commodification of non-human animals pervades the entire tourism space/system in all its complex relationships, from the point of origin to the point of destination, and the transit between the two, as studied by tourism geography. Despite the growing recognition of the need of fair treatment of other animals, our research indicates that slavery is persistent. At the point of origin, animal representations provide the raw material for imaginary tourism constructs that encourage the exploitation of other animals; in the space of transit, concern for the welfare of the companion animals is in sheer contrast with the exploitation of draught animals; finally, at the point of destination, non-human animals are observed, eaten, physically abused, and subject to many other forms of exploitation, in order to satisfy the appetites of visitors.

Releasing Cultural Tourism Potential of Less-privileged Island Communities in the Mediterranean: An ICT-enabled, Strategic, and Integrated Participatory Planning Approach

Abstract: The focus of this work is on the sustainable and resilient exploitation of natural and cultural resources of remote and fragmented insular territories for rendering these endowed but lagging-behind entities, attractive, experience-based cultural tourism destinations. For reaching this goal, a participatory, integrated, and strategic planning framework is developed, embedding a range of planning tools, e.g., scenario planning, spatial data management, and e-participation technologies for community engagement (Web-GIS, social networks). By use of this framework, an effort to integrate tangible and intangible elements of natural and cultural as well as land or underwater resources into coherent and challenging value-based cultural tourism narratives and products is undertaken, for shifting insularity disadvantage of insular spatial entities to competitive advantage in the tourism geography. The implementation of this framework is exemplified through empirical work in a specific case study, Leros Island—Greece, namely, a distinguishable insular territory and World War II battlefield scenery, a torturing place in its past but also in present as a refugees’ hotspot. This has revealed the eagerness of Leros community to cope with insularity bottlenecks and pave more promising future development trails that keep track with local values, expectations, and visions.

Contribution to assessement of the tourism impact on Landscape

Abstract: As the scale of tourism grows, the resources become more unsustainable. Destination with damaged environment loses its attraction and this fact causes increasing of building a new tourist destination mostly on unsuitable places. Mostly visitors and entrepreneurs do not realize that each place does not fit to build all tourist activities. Then the landscape is under the uncontrolled load which weights the environment. But tourism does not have only this dark side. In many regions it is a necessary human activity for further region development. The specific assessment of the tourism impact should bring a closer look on this problem and help to specify which regions are suitable for tourism spreading or not. In realized research focused on selected communities in the Nizký Jesenik Highlands there was the idea to quantify three suggested data sets (specific environmental area value, tourism potential and tourism infrastructure load) necessary for tourism impact assessment.

Promoting game-based e-Learning through urban tourism scenario game from the evaluation of knowledge-attitude-usability effectiveness

Abstract: This paper introduces a platform of Urban Tourism Scenario Game, which is created to enhance the teaching-learning process of tourism geography and planning through a scenario-based game of a hypot...

Looking to the Past: The Geography of Tourism in South Africa During the Pre-COVID-19 Era

Abstract: During 2020 the march of the COVID-19 pandemic created devastation for the tourism industry of South Africa. This chapter uses a spatial perspective to provide an understanding of the tourism space economy of South Africa in the pre-COVID-19 period. Arguing that the pandemic represents a historical turning point for tourism in South Africa the objective is to ‘look to the past’ and reconstruct the geography of tourism for 2018 almost the close of the pre-COVID 19 era. Future research on urban tourism in South Africa in the post-COVID period can utilise this historical benchmark of information in order to evaluate the COVID-19 impacts upon the tourism space economy of South Africa as well as for the resilience of different destinations. Key themes under scrutiny are the dominance of the tourism space economy by city destinations as a whole and metropolitan areas in particular and the mapping of differential urban tourisms in terms of cities and small towns. Location quotient analysis is undertaken to identify the most vulnerable localities to the negative consequences for urban tourism of COVID-19.

Every storm will pass: Examining expat’s host country-destination image, cultural intelligence and renewed destination loyalty in COVID-19 tourism

Abstract: The massive cultural transformation in the pandemic-paused tourism industry has revamped loyalty towards destinations, thus prompting scholarly attention towards global expats who were rarely consi...

Gambling Tourism and Economic Development: Some lessons from Macao

Abstract: This article aims to explore and document the relationship between forms of alternative tourism and economic development. More specifically, the subject of our investigation will be whether a small national economy is able to rely wholly or largely on tourist flows as a source of income and even to invest in a single type of tourism. Alternative forms of tourism, gaming tourism as well as the features of territorially limited countries and how they are linked to the case of Macau will also be objects of study and annotation. With the process of text production through scientific articles, statistical data and reliable data bases, we will attempt to 'cover' the investigated relationship as well as the stemming questions.

How do Olympic cities strategically leverage New Urban Tourism? Evidence from Tokyo

Abstract: Olympic cities increasingly draw on New Urban Tourism (NUT) principles as part of a host’s strategic tourism development objectives. By doing so, governments and event organisers seek to entangle visitors with local urban, cultural and everyday life. Yet, empirical evidence generated across previous Olympic cities illustrates how hosts often fail to encourage such host–guest interactivity. This is a critical tourism geography and consumption issue repeatedly identified across host city contexts. To address the disconnect between inbound urban tourists and host communities, Tokyo 2020 explicitly placed NUT objectives at the heart of official bid and policy promises. On the basis of a 33-day walking ethnography in Tokyo as well as 26 interviews and documentary analysis, our work details a set of strategically planned and creative NUT initiatives deployed by the public, private sector, and host community in the lead up to the Tokyo 2020 Games. Some of these include state-funded walking tours and city volunteer guide networks; tourist boards promoting local-grassroots festivals; through to joint collaborations between local tourist boards and ‘Timeout’ to produce local guides - constituting a productive step forward for showcasing the local culture outside tourist bubbles. Furthermore, we illustrate how Tokyo’s urban landscape closely intertwines tourist bubbles with local neighbourhoods affording a potential balance between staged and spontaneous host–guest interaction. Our conclusions emphasise the conceptual, social, and economic implications for strategic planning and implementation of NUT in Olympic cities and its potential contribution to inclusive and sustainable development.

Turismo arqueológico en Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, México: una perspectiva geográfica

Abstract: This research –generated from the perspective of tourism geography- focuses on knowing the touristic activity present in one of the most visited archeological sites in the world, Chichen Itza, in southeastern Mexico. Starting from the Theory of Spatial Interaction and the Theory of the Central Place, the objective of this work is to measure the scope of the archaeological tourism that takes place in this emblematic case study. The application of both visitor surveys and netnography in a specialized website allowed collecting information that was processed through statistical analysis, to later be presented in cartographic form. It was concluded that archeological tourism in Chichen Itza exceeds the national scale, largely driven by the influence of tourism promotion made nationally and internationally.

Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Urban Tourism Travel by Taxi—A Case Study of Shenzhen

Abstract: Tourism networks are an important research part of tourism geography. Despite the significance of transportation in shaping tourism networks, current studies have mainly focused on the “daily behavior” of urban travel at the expense of tourism travel, which has been regarded as an “exceptional behavior”. To fill this gap, this study proposes a framework for exploring the spatial and temporal characteristics of urban tourism travel by taxi. We chose Shenzhen, a densely populated mega-city in China with abundant tourism resources, as a case study. First, we extracted tourist trips from taxi trajectories and used kernel density estimation to analyze the spatial aggregation characteristics of tourist trip origins. Second, we investigated the spatial dependence of tourist trips using local spatial autocorrelation analysis (Getis-Ord Gi*). Third, we explored the correlations between the tourist trip origins and urban geographic contextual factors (e.g., catering services and transportation facilities) using a geographically weighted regression model. The results show the following: (1) the trends between the coverage of tourist travel networks and the volume of tourist trips are similar; (2) the spatial interaction intensity of urban tourism has grouping and hierarchical characteristics; and (3) the spatial distribution of tourist trips by taxi is uneven and influenced by the distribution of urban morphology, tourism resources, and the preferences of taxi pick-up passengers. Our proposed framework and revealed spatial and temporal patterns have implications for urban tourism traffic planning, tourism product development, and tourist flow control in tourist attractions.

Can Be Solidarity Paradigm a Catalyst for the Sustainability of Tourism

Abstract: The destructive effects of tourism on society, the environment, and the economy are among the phenomena that are widely known and discussed, like many other industries. Tourism, as one of the most reckless events of consumption fetishism, has a dynamism that affects sectoral development too on a demand basis. In these respects, it is considered that tourism should be rehabilitated in order to be sustainable despite its many positive effects. Although the “consumer and individualist spirit” of tourism is distant to collective, solidaristic, and restrictive-controlling approaches, it is expected that there will be a need for more interaction and association with these aspects in the new paradigm areas of the future. This study focuses on the habitual attitudes of tourism with the possible expectations of the future and discusses the solidarity tourism forms for the sustainability of tourism. It is clear that is needed to ask the economic, egocentric approaches in tourism. The paper predicts the more responsible, acceptable, fair, and conscious tourism can be possible if the spirit and face of tourism are able to turn to the solidaristic, and sustainable direction.

Geography of inbound tourism and transboundary tourism-and-recreation region building in sweden

Abstract: Sweden's tourism industry stands out for its large contribution to the development of the national economy. The vast size of the country makes it possible to trace differences in incoming tourist flows from neighbouring countries. This circumstance accounts for the novelty of this study, which lies in viewing national tourism geography from the perspective of the theory of transboundary tourism-and-recreation region building. Interregional differences in the structure of incoming tourist flows help identify the country’s cross-border tourism-and-recreation regions and delineate their borders. This research employs statistical and cartographic methods. The incoming tourist flow to Sweden grew steadily until 2020. However, the Covid-19 crisis has led to a drastic reduction in the number of incoming tourists. Based on the 2019 statistics, the findings confirm the existence of a developed transboundary tourism-and-recreation mesoregion that brings together Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. The formation boasts strong tourist links. There are another five cross-border tourism-and-recreation mesoregions: Sweden-Norway-Denmark, Middle Sweden-Norway, Sweden-Norway-Finland, Middle Sweden-Finland, and South Sweden-Finland. The number of tourists visiting cross-border mesoregions indicates the degree of development of the latter.

Introductory perspectives on marine tourism in South African law

Abstract: Marine tourism is a new subject of legal enquiry in South Africa. After defining "marine tourism", this paper explores the range of legal aspects of marine tourism by relying on the BLT model. The paper also analyses the extent to which generic tourism legislation in the national and provincial spheres of government affects marine tourism. The paper then examines the application of instances of municipal legislation to marine-tourism activities before concluding that there is unquestionably room for a comparative survey leading to the drafting of model legislation doing justice to the importance of marine tourism in the South African economy as well as the ecological sensitivity of the coastal zone.

How Geogames Can Support Geographical Education

Abstract: Knowledge of geography is one of the main elements in solving problems such as urbanization, socio-economic inequalities, disease, migration, natural disasters. It is also seen that importance is given to the acquisition of geographical skills in educational programs. The spatial thinking skill that provides geospatial information is a geographic skill needed in the analysis and interpretation of place. Geographical inquiry skill focuses on solving a problem in line with certain research processes. Geographic information systems are the basic spatial technology used in the development of spatial thinking and geographic inquiry skills. These three elements are effective tools for solving real-life problems and have become even more important today with the development of location-based mobile applications. It is believed that Geogames from digital games can be an effective new teaching technology in learning these elements within the framework of motivational sources and learning needs in the learning environments of generation Z, which was born into digital technology. Geogames are mobile, location-based, and location- aware games for devices such as smartphones and tablets. In the literature, some types of geogame can also be classified as serious game or pervasive game. Geogame is separated from these games by its focus on solving a spatial problem with its stakeholders, mainly using GIS technology, and is closely related to the science of geography. This review is intended to question how Geogames can support geographical education. For this purpose, Youplaceit! Geocaching on the Moon, Neocartographer, Ingress, OriGami, SimCity, Project Lily Pad, Minecraft-Urban Planning, and FindeVielfalt Simulation geogame applications have been studied in terms of current learning outcomes and features. According to the results, these games can be used in the teaching of physical and human geography topics such as environmental education, urban planning, space geography, tourism geography; can be effective in teaching map skills, spatial thinking, and geographic inquiry skills; can increase collaborative work and motivation. It has been determined that there is a need for research that will provide concrete data in this new academic discipline, and some research questions have been put forward for geography educators and researchers.

Rematerializing Tourism Studies: Toward a Political Economy of Tourist Space

Abstract: This chapter analyzes the challenges of a materialistic approach to tourism within geography. These challenges will be examined in the light of the theoretical changes that tourism research has undergone over the past three decades. While the economic perspective has been privileged up until the end of the 1980s, tourism studies have been predominantly influenced by the “cultural turn” since the early 1990s. Although this theoretical shift has led to a better understanding of tourism, and specifically of tourist practices and imaginaries, it also tends to remove tourism research from the study of structural inequalities. Based on this observation, I present a theoretical reflection that brings tourism geography back into a materialistic approach. Such a proposal is mostly based on theoretical debates on the spatial dimension of tourism. I particularly use the theoretical legacy of the Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre whose work has inspired a political economy of space. The return to historical materialism is then seen as a way of reviving the critical approach to tourism, while at the same time overcoming the weaknesses of those Marxist and structuralist approaches developed in the 1970s. In such a way, it also demonstrates the contribution of tourism studies to a broader understanding of contemporary capitalist societies, especially in relation to new forms of gentrification and urban dynamics.

Introduction: A ‘French Touch’ to Tourism Geography

Abstract: This chapter introduces the collection of essays and contextualises the recent developments of Francophone tourism geography. Especially, the focus on “touristic worlds” and the question of inhabiting are explained. Moreover, the specific geo-historic approaches of tourism are a distinctive element of Francophone tourism geography. Tourism also played a role in general or theoretical geography, in which it has fostered a renewed understanding of mobility and urban issues.

Exploring institutions’ perceived roles in regional tourism development: an institutional thickness approach

Abstract: In recent decades, commitment to tourism as a development strategy has grown across Latin America. However, despite being praised as an economic and social catalyst in various regions, developing t...

Geograf mutaxassislari tayyorlashda turizm geografiyasini o’qitishning ahamiyati

Abstract: This article provides information on the importance of tourism geography in the training of geographers, tourism geography, recreational geography, medical geography, tourist geography and tourism development.