A Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies

A Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies
Author: Dieter K. Müller
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 178643931X

In recent years, tourism geographies have developed into a vibrant field of research at the intersection of geography and tourism studies. The book presents a unique collection of individual research agendas aiming to inspire the pursuit of new avenues of research. Although there have been arguments to apply post-disciplinary perspectives within tourism research, this book highlights the interest and potential of tourism geographers to contribute to a geographical tradition and influence the future content of geography as a discipline.

A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies

A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies
Author: Alice Hovorka
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788979990

Exploring the innovative and thriving field of animal geographies, this Research Agenda analyses how humans think about, place, and engage with animals. Chapters explore how animals shape human identities and social dynamics, as well as how broader processes influence the circumstances and experiences of animals.

A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence

A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence
Author: Shannon O’Lear
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178897803X

This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.

A Research Agenda for Military Geographies

A Research Agenda for Military Geographies
Author: Rachel Woodward
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 229
Release:
Genre: Military geography
ISBN: 1786438879

A Research Agenda for Military Geographies explores how military activities and phenomena are shaped by geography, and how geographies are in turn shaped by military practices. A variety of future research agendas are mapped out, examining the questions faced by geographers when studying the military and its effects.

Progress in French Tourism Geographies

Progress in French Tourism Geographies
Author: Mathis Stock
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030521362

This book provides an overview of the recent progress in Francophone tourism geography. It focuses on the theoretical advances in social and cultural geography, whereby the symbolic dimensions of tourism and the creation of tourism worlds are key. It puts forward the tourist conceived as mobile, situated, skilled, reflexive inhabitant of places, which gives all its meaning to the expression “inhabiting touristic worlds”. More specifically, this book addresses numerous rarely addressed issues such as the geo-history of tourism, the material cultures of tourists, the digitality and disconnection from digital technologies in National Parcs or the use of knowledge of tourists in metropolises. It gives insights in the specific Francophone approaches such as inhabiting, the urbanity of tourist resorts and the notion of territory in tourist studies. Finally, it provides an overview of the urban dimensions of tourism, place-making in the form of heritage, oasis tourism, sports tourism, production of space in Mexican resorts. As such, the book provides a key read for academics, students and professionals in tourism studies and tourism geography in search for alternative approaches.

A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development

A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development
Author: Richard Sharpley
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788112415

Tourism is integral to local, regional and national development policies; as a major global economic sector, it has the potential to underpin economic growth and wider development. Yet, transformations in both the nature of tourism and the dynamic environment within which it occurs give rise to new questions with regards to its developmental role. This Research Agenda offers a state-of-the-art review of the research into the tourism-development nexus. Exploring issues including governance, policy, philanthropy, poverty reduction and tourism consumption, it identifies significant gaps in the literature, and proposes new and sometimes provocative avenues for future research.

A Research Agenda for Arctic Tourism

A Research Agenda for Arctic Tourism
Author: Outi Rantala
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1035319993

With the Arctic firmly in the spotlight of global public attention due to the current climate crisis and increased access to its natural resources, this timely Research Agenda addresses the key issues facing the Arctic, such as a warming climate and tourism in the North.

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism
Author: Nancy Duxbury
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019
Genre: Creative ability
ISBN: 1788110722

Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts combine to give shape to the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and pragmatic issues.

Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals

Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Jarkko Saarinen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000487474

This comprehensive volume comprises some of the best scholarship on sustainable tourism in recent years, demonstrating the rich body of past research that provides a fertile and critical ground for studies on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by tourism geographers and other social scientists in the future. Since the turn of the 1990s many international development and policy-making organisations have perceived the tourism industry, with its local and regional connections, as a high-potential tool for putting sustainable development into practice. The capacity of tourism to work for sustainable development was highlighted in relation to the United Nations’ SDGs, which were adopted in 2015. The SDGs define the agenda for global development to 2030 by addressing pertinent challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. Tourism geographers and allied disciplines have held strong and long-term interest in sustainability issues, and their chapters in this collection contribute significantly to this emerging and highly policy-relevant research field. This book was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.