The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies

Geographical analysis of tourism spaces and places is advancing fast. In terms of human geography, the various recent academic ?turns? have led to fresh examination of existing debates and have advanced new theoretical ideas in geography that are more salient than ever for tourism studies. The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies seeks to examine such recent developments by providing a state-of-the-art review of the field, documenting advances in research and evaluating different perspectives, approaches, techniques and contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies considers recent disciplinary developments (including post-disciplinarily) in geography in relation to the study of tourism. It also analyzes the fledging relationships of the new mobilities paradigm, critical tourism studies and cultural political economy to tourism spaces and places, as well as acknowledging a spatial turn in poststructuralist social sciences more generally. In addition, it evaluates how postcolonial, feminist, sensory, performative and queer perspectives have diversified research in the tourism geographies field. Spatial analysis, time geography, placemaking and landscape concerns are addressed and issues such as transport, environmental discourses and development are also analyzed. Finally, the volume?s contributions highlight key areas for advancing research and map out the dimensions of future trajectories in tourism geographies in different theoretical and thematic contexts.

Written by leading scholars in the tourism geographies field, this text will provide an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in tourism geographies, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study.

Introduction 1. Tourism: The View from Space Part 1: Tracing Tourism Geographies 2. From the Geography of Tourism to Geographies of Tourism 3. Tourism Geographies or Geographies of Tourism: Where the Bloody Hell are we? Part 2: Conceptualising Tourism Geographies 4. Tourism Geographies and Post-Structuralism 5. A Radical Departure: A Critique of the Critical Turn in Tourism Studies 6. Geographies of Tourism: Space, Ethics and Encounter 7. Tourism, Individuation and Space 8. Performance, Space and Tourism 9. Sensuous Geographies of Tourism10. Queer Perspectives on Tourism Geographies 11. Tourism, Space and Gender12. Future Spaces of Postcolonialism in Tourism 13. Gentrification, Tourism and the Production and Consumption of Space 14. The ‘Mobilities Turn’ and the Geography of Tourism 15. Exploring the Geographies of Lifestyle Mobility: Current and Future Fields of Enquiry 16. Tourism, Creativity and Space 17. Making and Unmaking Places in Tourism Geographies 18. Tourism Spaces, Behaviours and Cultures: The Metaspatialities of Tourism Part 3: Approaching Tourism Geographies 19. The Economy of Tourism Spaces: A Multiplicity of ‘Critical Turns’? 20. Historical Geographies of Tourism 21. Spatial Analysis: A Critical Tool for Tourism Geographies 22. Time Geography and Tourism 23. Geography and the Marketing of Tourism Destinations 24. Geographies of Tourism and Development 25. Environmental Discourses and Tourism 26. Landscape Perspectives on Tourism Geographies27. The Politics and Geographies of International Air Transport Part 4: Situating Tourism Geographies 28. Rethinking Mass Tourism, Space and Place 29. Geographies of Rural Tourism: Current Progress and Paradoxes 30. Geographies of Tourism and the City 31. Changing Geographies of Coastal Resorts: Development Processes and Tourism Spaces Part 5: Advancing Tourism Geographies 32. Tourism Geographies in a Post-Disciplinary Age

Julie Wilson is Research Professor at the Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia and Senior Research Fellow, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.