Tourism Geography

Travel blogs are an under-utilized data repository of everyday geopolitical musings. These public, longform, generally reflexive texts allow researchers to better understand how travellers narrate their own positionality and agency within limiting state structures. Geopolitics scholars of varying theoretical and topical interests can use travel blogs as data to better understand how everyday tourists and travellers ‘live geopolitics.’ Drawing primarily from popular and feminist geopolitical insights, this paper shows how travel blogs help us to rethink questions about geopolitical authorship, especially within a digital landscape of media fragmentation. This paper also provides a case study on the geopolitical discourse of ‘border talk’ in the blogs of international volunteer teachers in Namibia.

Abstract

Battlefield sites are important cultural heritage attractions and serve to enhance local, regional and national tourism resources. They are able to stimulate powerful emotional responses in some visitors and have deep, if contentious, personal and collective meanings. This paper investigates a particular type of feeling that is thought to exist when visitors experience the past. The phenomenon of numinosity is defined as a deeply transcendental and connective experience which is stimulated by an engagement with the past. Applying this concept to battlefield sites this paper explores the extent to which this experience is present amongst visitors. Beginning with an assessment of the place of battlefields as dark sites the paper proceeds by discussing the theory of numinosity and how there has been some empirical analysis of the concept at battlefield sites. This is then developed by presenting the results of a study into numinosity at battle sites in Britain. The paper concludes by showing how numinosity is a rare phenomenon and suggests that we should adopt a more nuanced understanding of it. Instead of maintaining a homogenous interpretation of the phenomenon the paper concludes that, when present, there might be a number of different gradations of the numen. 

Keywords: Battlefields; numen; numinosity; dark tourism

A atividade turística tem sido, nos últimos tempos, um sustentáculo crucial da capacidade exportadora do nosso País. Se atendermos às estatísticas mais recentes relativas ao Comércio Externo rapidamente notamos a influência do Turismo sobre a Balança Comercial, traduzida em saldos positivos no tocante ao domínio dos Serviços. Por outro lado, as expetativas para os próximos anos continuam a corresponder a cenários de crescimento entre moderado a forte da procura turística de base externa. Enquanto elemento condicionante da capacidade nacional de dar resposta a estes acréscimos encontra-se a questão estruturante das infraestruturas aeroportuárias da região de Lisboa. A recente assinatura do contrato para ampliação do aeroporto Humberto Delgado e para a construção de um aeroporto complementar localizado no Montijo, enquadra-se no domínio das estratégias de apoio ao desenvolvimento da atividade empresarial, com natural destaque para o turismo. Deste modo, urge reflectir sobre as oportunidades que se poderão apresentar, ao nível local, decorrentes do referido aumento da capacidade das estruturas aeroportuárias da região de Lisboa. A presente comunicação inscreve como objectivo fundamental a apresentação de um quadro prospectivo referente ao potencial de desenvolvimento da atividade turística num município (Palmela) da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, situado nas proximidades do futuro aeroporto do Montijo. Em termos metodológicos, recorreremos às estatísticas mais recentes disponíveis e, em complemento, procederemos a um quadro de entrevistas seletivas a stakeholders locais com interesses na área da atividade turística, quer sejam agentes empresariais e associativos, quer sejam decisores no domínio da atividade política. Considerando as caraterísticas do tecido económico de Palmela, e tendo em conta a necessidade de escolher um tipo de atividades mais directamente mobilizável para o aproveitamento das futuras oportunidades oferecidas pelo novo aeroporto (que, de acordo com os dados disponíveis, será, no essencial destinado a empresas do segmento low cost), a nossa análise irá privilegiar o potencial oferecido pela dinamização do denominado Enoturismo. Em termos de estrutura, a nossa comunicação abordará, num primeiro momento, o quadro de referência territorial do Município de Palmela, envolvendo a apresentação de dados sobre estrutura espacial, demografia, economia e setor vinícola, para, numa segunda etapa, (e tendo em linha de conta elementos recolhidos, quer estatísticos, quer decorrentes das entrevistas) proceder a uma discussão de uma possível estratégia de valorização dos recursos locais, no quadro da promoção do enoturismo no território de Palmela. Palavras-chave: Aeroporto, Montijo, Palmela, Turismo 1. INTRODUÇÃO A atividade turística tem sido, nos últimos tempos, um sustentáculo crucial da capacidade exportadora do nosso País. Se atendermos às estatísticas mais recentes relativas ao Comércio Externo rapidamente notamos a influência do Turismo sobre a Balança Comercial, traduzida em saldos positivos no tocante ao domínio dos Serviços. Por outro lado, as expetativas para os próximos anos continuam a corresponder a cenários de crescimento entre moderado a forte da procura turística de base externa. Enquanto elemento condicionante da capacidade nacional de dar resposta a estes acréscimos encontra-se a questão estruturante das infraestruturas aeroportuárias da região de Lisboa. A recente assinatura do contrato para ampliação do aeroporto Humberto Delgado e para a construção de um aeroporto complementar localizado no Montijo, enquadra-se no domínio das estratégias de apoio ao desenvolvimento da atividade empresarial, com natural destaque para o turismo (Cristureanu e Bobircă, 2007; Birch, 2011; Vaz et al., 2014). Deste modo, urge reflectir sobre as oportunidades que se poderão apresentar, ao nível local, decorrentes do referido aumento da capacidade das estruturas aeroportuárias da região de Lisboa. A presente comunicação inscreve como objectivo fundamental a apresentação de um quadro prospectivo referente ao potencial de desenvolvimento da actividade turística num município (Palmela) da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, situado nas proximidades do futuro aeroporto do Montijo. Em termos metodológicos, recorreremos às estatísticas mais recentes disponíveis e, em complemento, procederemos a um quadro de entrevistas seletivas a stakeholders locais com interesses na área da atividade turística, quer sejam agentes empresariais e associativos, quer sejam decisores no domínio da actividade política. Considerando as caraterísticas do tecido económico de Palmela, e tendo em conta a necessidade de escolher um tipo de atividades mais directamente mobilizável para o aproveitamento das futuras oportunidades oferecidas pelo novo aeroporto (que, de acordo com os dados disponíveis, será, no essencial destinado a empresas do segmento low cost, Abrantes, 2010; Rodrigues, 2012; Brito, 2016), a nossa análise irá privilegiar o potencial oferecido pela dinamização do denominado Enoturismo. No território de Palmela coexistem diversas empresas vinícolas com importante afirmação em mercados nacionais e internacionais. Deste modo, a nossa comunicação assume como referencial metodológico a auscultação de atores associados a esta actividade.

RESUMEN El siguiente texto tiene como propósito reflexionar acerca de la planificación turística en aras de reconocer y aprovechar los territorios rurales como representación del entorno habitado por comunidades campesinas, indígenas y otros tantos que parten de la catalogación minoritaria. Se 2003), donde se parte de una idea general de la planificación que necesita ajustes de acuerdo al contexto a trabajar. Cada uno de los autores proponen algunos modelos, donde es necesario revisar y evidenciar cuál de estos se ajusta a los contextos rurales, siendo el lugar de estudio de dicho documento, donde las necesidades propias de la comunidad y del territorio reflejan la penuria de establecer actividades económicas alternativas a las tradicionales, buscando visibilizar la riqueza cultural que construye el tejido social, la identidad territorial que nace de las labores del campo y los símbolos territoriales que se ajustan a la protección y apropiación del campo.

Cada una de estas premisas se reconocen como valores insertos de representatividad laboral del campesinado, que representan las complejidades que se deben de reconocer en la trazabilidad de la planificación turística. Desde el modelo convencional hasta la innovación como estandarte de la planificación, se reflexiona sobre los modelos y enfoques que a su vez son representados en los esquemas de planificación turística que propone el viceministerio de turismo según rangos de desarrollo y estado actual de los destinos.
ISBN: 978-9942-35-969-8

The term 'décroissance' (degrowth) signifies a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society's material and energy use while improving the quality of life. Degrowth calls for decolonizing imaginaries and institutions from-in Ursula Le Guin's words-'a one-way future consisting only of growth'. Recent scholarship has focused on the ecological and social costs of growth, on policies that may secure prosperity without growth, and the study of grassroots alternatives pre-figuring a post-growth future. There has been limited engagement, however, with the geographical aspects of degrowth. This special issue addresses this gap, looking at the rooted experiences of peoples and collectives rebelling against, and experimenting with alternatives to, growth-based development. Our contributors approach such resurgent or 'nowtopian' efforts from a decolonial perspective, focusing on how they defend and produce new places, new subjectivities and new state relations. The stories told span from the Indigenous territories of the Chiapas in Mexico and Adivasi communities in southern India, to the streets of Athens, the centres of power in Turkey and the riverbanks of West Sussex.

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Within tourism research, trust has largely been conceptualised from psychological perspectives, allowing insights into the mechanisms through which resident/stakeholder relations generate trust. Whilst this work is valuable in understanding dynamics of trust relations, such focus has meant less attention has been given to the ways space influences trust in tourism contexts. Thus a geographical approach is put forth to understanding trust in tourism. Through observation and semi-structured interviews concerned with the implementation of a community tourism project in southwest China, insights are provided illustrating how trust is inscribed in place. It is shown that in the Chinese context, cultural place based specifities relating to pre-existing governance structures, social hierarchies, and the intersection of power, knowledge and trust influence the (in)abilities of NGOs to develop trust with specific residents. More meaningful dialogue between tourism research and geographical conceptualisations of trust is called for-as a way to attend to spatial and scalar differences in understandings of trust within tourism contexts. 在旅游研究中，通常是从心理学的角度对信任进行概念界定，以使人们能够通 过居民/利益相关者之间的关系洞察信任产生的机制。尽管这些研究有利于理 解信任关系的动态模式，但这也意味着对空间如何影响信任的研究则关注较

Laesser, C., Bieger, T., Pechlaner, H., Keller, P. and Buhalis, D. (2019), "75 years of Tourism Review: survival by transformation: a perspective article", Tourism Review, Vol.75(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-02-2019-0069

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct and analyze the long history of Tourism Review and try to outline the future of this journal. Design/methodology/approach-The authors show that Tourism Review has been a good example of multiple life cycles over time and of survival by adaption. Findings-The authors illustrate also how this journal has seen decline, as well as revival, and stagnation, as well as innovation. Originality/value-It is also a proxy of the state and issues of tourism research and publication over 75 years.

Umm Qais is one of the largest historical tourist sites in Jordan. It is surrounded by different residential and urban activities. To identify and predict the land use changes that may threaten the historical tourist attractions of Umm Qais, this study utilized LANDSAT images of the area for the years 1985, 1991, 2006, 2010, and 2016 and forecasted the change in the years 1997, 2003, and 2022 to monitor the change in barren, agricultural, water, and urban areas. The image analysis and classification were carried out using ArcGIS 10.2 whereas Markov chain analysis was used for forecasting purposes. The results of the study predict that the urban areas will expand by about 21.55% in the year 2022 compared to the year 2016 (15.75%). In addition, agricultural areas will surge by about 35.91%. The expansion in the urban and agricultural areas is predicted to be at the expense of barren areas especially those close to the Umm Qais historical site. These land use changes will cause urban development encroachments onto the cultural landscape of the site. A number of recommendations and policy implications, regarding buffer zoning, land expropriation, stakeholders’ involvement, and legislation, are suggested to mitigate the impacts of the current and
future urban development activities.

Travelling is simultaneously functional and meaningful: it is cultural, political, embodied, narrated and imagined. The main goal of this thematic issue is to discuss the tourist experience and mobilities in relation to various landscapes, which can be experienced in physical, narrated, mediated and other ways. Tourist landscapes occur through sensory and affective, as well as discursive and narrated, movement of people, vehicles, ideas and information. This thematic issue will examine how these travelling landscapes are experienced, practiced, imagined and performed in motion in various social and political contexts. We will take a closer look at the place- and culture-specific mobile practices from running and walking to travelling on various means of transport such as cars, boats, trains, bicycles, coaches, planes and others. We are also interested in discussing the ways culture, society, politics and religion affect and influence the formation of touristic landscapes.

The Tourist Gaze (Urry 1990, 2002) is one of the most discussed and cited tourism books (with about 4k citations on Google scholar). Whilst wide-ranging in scope, the book is known for the Foucault-inspired concept of the tourist gaze that brings out the fundamentally visual and image-saturated nature of tourism encounters. However, some recent literature has critiqued this notion of the 'tourist gaze' for reducing tourism to visual experiences-to sightseeing-and neglecting the other senses, bodily experiences and 'adventure'. The influential 'performance turn' (see Edensor, 1998; Coleman and Crang, 2002; Haldrup and Larsen, 2010 amongst others) within tourist studies suggests that the doings of tourism are physical or corporeal and not merely visual and it is necessary to regard 'performing' rather than 'gazing' as the dominant tourist research paradigm (Perkins and Thorns, 2001). Yet we argue here that there are in fact many similarities between the paradigms of gaze and of performance. They should 'dance together' rather than stare at each other at a distance. This paper rethinks the tourist gaze in the light of this performance turn and of a Goffmanian dramaturgical sociology by examining the embodied and multisensuous nature of gazing, as well as the complex social relations and fluid power geometries comprising performances of gazing. The Foucault-inspired notion of the tourist gaze can be enlivened, made more bodily