The Cultural Turn? Toward a more Critical Economic Geography of Tourism

Time, Space, Tourism and Social Physics

“…Much of the recent 'cultural turn' in human geography has focused on qualitative approaches to human behaviour, including tourism (Debbage and Ioannides 2004). Arguably, strong parallels exist between the cultural turn in tourism geography and the mobile turn in sociology, what has been provided a base for much analysis on regional science, planning and transport (e.g.…”

Tourism Geography: Emerging Trends and Initiatives to Support Tourism in Morocco

“…The geographical approaches to studying tourism have moved through a number of evolutionary phases (see Debbage and Loannides, 2004). For the main review papers on 'tourism geography', we refer to Pearce (1979), Mitchell and Murphy (1991), Butler (2004), and Hall and Page (2009).…”

Travelling down the road to postdisciplinarity? Reflections of a tourism geographer

“…As a consequence, tourism geographers found some renewed common ground with their fellow geographers (Bianchi 2009). For example, in the context of economic geography, Stephen Britton's (1991) examination of tourism, capital, and place is often cited as a seminal example of such a contribution (Debbage and Ioannides 2004). Likewise, the work of British sociologist John Urry (1990) on the “tourist gaze” reinvigorated interest in issues of tourism amongst postmodern scholars including geographers.…”

“…In the second section, entitled “The journey: Placing tourism geographies,” I examine the role of geographers as pioneers in tourism studies and the evolution of tourism geography through the various paradigmatic shifts in the discipline that resulted in a move towards the margins of the discipline. In particular, I draw attention to the impact of the more recent “cultural turn” in geography (Barnes 2001), that introduced new perspectives on culture and meaning, and simultaneously attracted economic and social geographers towards tourism‐related issues (Debbage and Ioannides 2004), while at the same time drawing some tourism geographers away from the discipline and into the multidisciplinary arena of tourism studies (Lew et al 2004). The third section is entitled “Policing the discipline” and examines the role of institutions in maintaining disciplinary boundaries.…”