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National tourism organizations and climate change Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Stefan Gössling, Ralf Vogler, Andreas Humpe, Ning (Chris) Chen
There is a consensus that the global tourism system needs to undergo decarbonization and achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century. However, given the anticipated growth in the most energy-intensiv...
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Tourism geopolitics: roots and branches Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Jamie Gillen
This paper critically reviews tourism geopolitics’ lifespan with a focus on both recent developments and its longer history. Contemporary times show increased attention paid by geographers to touri...
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Entangled engagements: a posthumanist and affirmative ethics for tourism geographies Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jaume Guia, Tazim Jamal
This review summarizes some key moments in the development of ethics in tourism research and practice where three main areas of concern are identified: socio-economic inequalities, cultural discrim...
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Climate change and tourism geographies Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Stefan Gössling, Daniel Scott
Climate change is no longer in the future, it is an evolving business and policy reality for tourism. Extreme weather events including heavy rainfall and flooding, drought, heat waves, storms, and ...
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International development and tourism geographies Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Regina Scheyvens
This commentary reviews the state of tourism and international development scholarship with special attention to publications from this journal, Tourism Geographies. Rather than assuming that touri...
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Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rebecca E. Pearson, Douglas K. Bardsley, Marco Pütz
The tourism industry is complex and deeply embedded into the social, environmental, and cultural fabric of social-ecological systems. Tourism presents an additional rural development pathway for re...
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Vlogging gastronomic tourism: understanding Global North-South dynamics in YouTube videos and their audiences’ feedback Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ateeq Abdul Rauf, Fahad Mansoor Pasha
Gastronomic tourism is a developed research stream in tourism studies. Previous literature, however, has mainly shed light either on the micro-context of food itself or on meso-contexts such as her...
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The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Dan Knox
The spectral geography of the colonial legacy in Bristol is marked by a series of absences from official and tourist narratives about the city. The people and practices of the Atlantic slave trade ...
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Geopolitics of mobile masses: refugee and tourist metaphors in Finnish-Russian bordertown media Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Vilhelmiina Vainikka, Joni Tuomas Vainikka, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
This paper examines the discourses on mobile others as objects of massification or likened to natural forces. By creating a dialogue between theories of crowds/masses and popular geopolitics, we ex...
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Tourism destination development: the tourism area life cycle model Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Richard Butler
The tourist area life cycle has been in existence for over four decades since its publication in The Canadian Geographer and was described as ‘one of the most cited and contentious areas of tourism...
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Significance of biocultural heritage, cultural landscape and islandness for responsible tourism: a Knoydart case study Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Tamara Griffiths
The COVID-19 pandemic, environmental crisis and increasing growth in tourism prompted interest in more responsible tourism. So called responsible tourism (RT) entails diverse ingredients and an aim...
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Opening Pandora’s box: the making of cannabis tourism in Thailand Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Alexandre Veilleux
In 2022, Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize the possession of cannabis. Despite the government’s unwillingness to legalize recreational cannabis or promote cannabis tourism,...
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Dark tourism geographies: ontological, epistemological and axiological perspectives Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Nitasha Sharma, Annaclaudia Martini
In this state-of-the-art review, we provide an overview of past debates and current trends in dark tourism geographies, and conceptually examine its theoretical intersections with critical issues, ...
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Phygital time geography, or: what about technology in tourists’ space-time behaviour? Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Micol Mieli, Malin Zillinger, Jan-Henrik Nilsson
The paper argues for the renewed relevance of time geography in tourism in light of the use of mobile technologies and ubiquitous connectivity. The paper proposes the concept of phygitality to unde...
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Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Dharug Ngurra, Lexodious Dadd, Corina Norman, Venessa Possum, Marnie Graham, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Harriet Narwal, Rebecca Scott, Jessica Lemire
In this article, we centre the voices and experiences of children engaged over several years in Indigenous tourism initiatives on Dharug Country (Dharug Ngurra) in Western Sydney, Australia. As Dh...
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Gaze and reflexivity in postcolonial cinema: the pragmatic turn in critical tourism studies Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Rich Harrill, David A. Cardenas, Leonardo L. A. N. Dioko, Alex Arhin
This article examines the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical integration of postcolonial cinema into critical tourism education. These works help viewers understand the influence of film ...
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From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’? Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Piotr Niewiadomski, Patrick Brouder
Although sustainable tourism research is a rich and diverse field, it still suffers from a few important shortcomings. Negligible attention has been given to various possible pathways to sustainabl...
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Commentary: transitions research and sustainable tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jonathan Köhler
This commentary discusses the growing connections between sustainable tourism research and the sustainability transitions literature. The common ground between sustainability transitions and sustai...
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Sustainability transitions in tourism: on the transformation of a fragmented sector Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Thomas Magnusson, Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Karin Wigger, Göran Andersson
This conceptual paper argues that there are unrealized benefits from a cross-fertilization between research on sustainable tourism and sustainability transitions studies. With the aim to stimulate ...
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From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 David Flood Chavez, Piotr Niewiadomski, Tod Jones
Until the end of WW2, the Margaret River region (MRR) was a popular domestic destination based on cave explorations. A series of incremental innovations between the 1950s and 1990s reconfigured the...
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Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Irma Booyens, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, Kristy Langerman, Kate Rivett-Carnac
Transitions to low-carbon energy are central to sustainability transitions, with electricity being a pressing current concern both in South Africa and globally. Economic, social, institutional, and...
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Transitioning towards sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides: an evolutionary investigation Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Piotr Niewiadomski, Victoria Mellon
While there is rich research on tourism destination evolution, the literature on how normative social and environmental goals (as opposed to contingent events or economic imperatives) drive the evo...
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Urban tourism transitions: doughnut economics applied to sustainable tourism development Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Shirley Nieuwland
Issues with social and ecological sustainability in tourism should be seen as the result of widespread neoliberal policy making. This has led to tourism strategies that focus largely on growth of v...
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Going the distance: endurance philanthropy, spectacle, and development in Central America Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Rebecca Clouser, Jillian M. Rickly
The increasing popularity of fusing adventure, humanitarianism, and travel has received attention from scholars within the fields of leisure and tourism studies, particularly regarding widespread a...
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Correction Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-07
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Traveling to escape, resist, and belong: centering black experiences within tourism scholarship Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Alana Dillette, Stefanie Benjamin, Derek Alderman
Examining the contemporary movement of Black Travel, the special issue explores the intersection of racial inequities, Black belonging, and tourism, drawing inspiration from articles published in t...
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Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Tatjana Walpersberger, Ulrike Gretzel
Vanlife as a hypermobile travel practice relies heavily on online storytelling to connect its members and promote its values. Setting itself apart from sedentary and materialistic forms of living a...
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Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Abbie-Gayle Johnson
Destinations with populations of African descent have continuously experienced negative stereotypes portrayed in traditional Western print media. These narratives have expanded to fake news circula...
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Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, Alana Dillette
In marking 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived to Jamestown, United States in 1619, the Ghana government through the Ghana Tourism Authority initiated the Year of Return 2019 (#YOR2...
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Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Amy E. Potter, Matthew R. Cook, LaToya E. Eaves, Perry Carter, Candace Forbes Bright
According to the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), there are more than 200 African American history and cultural museums—or other sites with substantial African American collections s...
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Advancing evolutionary economic geographies of tourism: trigger events, transformative moments and destination path shaping Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Laura James, Henrik Halkier, Cinta Sanz-Ibáñez, Julie Wilson
The study of tourism destination evolution has been enriched in recent years by the adoption of concepts from Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG). The aim of this article and those constituting t...
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Sense of community and well-being in diaspora festivals Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Ermias Kifle Gedecho, Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Honggen Xiao
This study was prompted by a lack of empirical research addressing the overlap between sense of community and eudemonic well-being components, the limited attention paid to immigrant perspectives i...
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Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Arie Stoffelen, Dallen J. Timothy
The interplay between borders and tourism has fascinated tourism geographers for decades. However, only recently has tourism geographies research on borders mirrored border studies by interweaving ...
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List of Reviewers Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-21
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Vol. 25, No. 8, 2023)
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Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mingming Cheng
The fast-changing social media landscape have seen a paradigm shift in how we interact with and research space, place and environment in tourism. Social media presents both challenges and opportuni...
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Posthumanism and animal geography: the case of Freya the walrus on media Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Lucia Tomassini
Biodiversity loss, climate change and depletion of natural habitats urge a critical reflection on the human conceptualisation of wildlife space. Within the context of tourism, this study critically...
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Social mobility goes on holiday: rethinking space and communities through tourism mobilities Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Antonio Paolo Russo, Chiara Rabbiosi
The evolution of tourism mobilities and their interactions with place have always comprised of ambiguous change dimensions relative to the social, spatial, and socio-spatial mobility of both guest ...
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What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Giuseppe Tomasella
COVID-19 subjected people to unprecedented limitations on their personal mobility that have had severe repercussions in many economic and social environments. Tourism and nightlife were among the m...
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Reassembling tourism labour and housing precarity: Barcelona during COVID-19 Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Alejandro González-Domingo, Antonio Paolo Russo, María Inmaculada Pastor Gosálbez
The COVID-19 crisis severely disrupted the lives of hospitality and tourism workers worldwide. In Southern European cities, overly dependent on the visitor economy, a substantial part of the workfo...
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Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Olga Hannonen
Digital nomadism has become a rapidly growing subject of interest both in the public and scientific domain especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Conceptual and empirical developments in research ...
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Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Loretta Bellato, Anna Pollock
Regenerative tourism is a nascent, often misunderstood concept in tourism scholarship and practice. Therefore, this state-of-the-art review attempts to clarify the concept by analysing the discours...
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Tourism and degrowth Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Ivan Murray, Robert Fletcher, Macià Blázquez-Salom, Asunción Blanco-Romero, Ernest Cañada, Filka Sekulova
The necessity and consequences of the exponential growth in tourism activity experienced throughout the world over the past half-century have been increasingly questioned by an expanding body of ac...
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Tourism and the blue economy Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Felicity Picken
The blue economy is formally recognized by the United Nations as a term that aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of economic activity that takes place within or through ocean and freshwat...
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Tourism, worldmaking, and disquieting settler atmospherics Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Michela J. Stinson
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Personal crisis as a catalyser in a Movement Continuum of tourism lifestyle mobilities Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Ekaterina Shebanova, Tara Duncan, Dani Blasco Franch
Various professional, economic, and personal reasons underpin current migration flows. This article integrated the concepts of lifestyle travelling and lifestyle migration by bringing the tourism-m...
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Denialist and neoliberal approaches to tourism and the COVID-19 pandemic Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Maartje Roelofsen, Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, as well as speculation about tourism futures, have been the subject of intense academic debate. Yet, despite a prolific literature on the intimate r...
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Sinking into the ocean? Climate change risks and second home planning Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen, Jan Kloster Staunstrup, Michael Tophøj Sørensen, Anne-Mette Hjalager
Second homes are essential resources for tourism and recreation. Climate change is projected to transform tourism geographies and threaten economic and recreational activities. Based on building an...
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Caring for melting glaciers Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Halvor Dannevig, Tone Rusdal
Melting glaciers and snow fields have become one of the strongest symbols of global climate change, instigating last-chance tourism and rallying cries for climate action from activists. In this sen...
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On the gender imperative in tourism geographies research Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Heike Schänzel
This discussion provides a critical review of gender issues in tourism geographies. It maps historical and contemporary developments and provides a future research agenda that suggests moving beyon...
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Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Jillian Rickly, Nitasha Sharma, Brendan Canavan
A leading concept in the field of tourism studies, authenticity has a unique relationship with tourism geographies. This state-of-the-art review focuses on this relationship. First, we identity key...
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Fairy tourism: negotiating the production of fantasy geographies and magical storyscapes Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Jane Lovell, Nitasha Sharma
This research brings an original anthropological approach to the understanding of how the tourism industry negotiates the construction of elusive, magical geographies. Fairy tourism or ‘fairy hunti...
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The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Christopher Smith Bignardi Neves, Marcos Aurélio Tarlombani da Silveira
Research on LGBTQI + people has increased in recent years in several areas. In geography and sociology, they were interpreted as producers and modifiers of urban space. In tourism literature, effor...
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Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Rotem Mashkov, Noam Shoval
Technological developments over the last two decades have allowed researchers to employ advanced tracking technologies to collect high-resolution spatial and temporal data. Despite the extensive us...
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Valuing surfing ecosystems: an environmental economics and natural resources management perspective Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Ana Manero, Leon Mach
Surfing ecosystems—surf breaks and their surrounding areas—can provide multifaceted benefits, including support for tourism industries, personal and social wellbeing and shoreline protection. Previ...
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Just tourism transitions? Sustainability policy interventions and implications on Boracay, Philippines Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 James Tops, Machiel Lamers
Policy interventions for tourism sustainability transitions are carried out in destinations worldwide. Yet, how decision-making processes and strategies could adversely affect communities and regio...
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Exploring queer people of colour’s perceptions of pride in Sydney Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Clifford Lewis, Shiva Chandra, Kevin Markwell
Pride events in majority-White contexts reflect social structures and power relations which privilege individuals from that group. The normative Whiteness that shapes these societies influence the ...
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Confronting historical narratives at the Castillo de San Marcos, Saint Augustine, Florida Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Ivy Chen
Recent research on intangible cultural heritage and the politics of contested sites of memory show that the emotional dimensions of historic places change over time and influence what visitors expe...
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Tourist encounters with a “GoPro”: three layers of hike&fly paragliding travels Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Karina Kirsten
Hike&fly is a recent development in adventure tourism combining cross-country paragliding flights with hiking in remote destinations and is currently under-researched as a relatively new tourism ph...
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TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’ Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Kath Bassett
If you possess a smartphone and use applications that are functionally bound to location, you are familiar with locative media. This genre of digital platform enables navigation and wayfinding, as ...
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Spatial dynamics, dating app tourists, and location-porting in the tourist encounter Tourism Geographies (IF 11.355) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Fabian Broeker
Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Berlin in 2019 and 2020, partly during the COVID-19 lockdown, this article seeks to address the spatial dynamics experienced by young dat...