‘Tourism Geographies are moving out’ – A comment on the current state of Institutional Geographies of Tourism Geographies

Abstract

Tourism geographies are a vibrant field of scientific inquiry. Despite this, it is obvious that the sub-discipline is met with disinterest within geography departments, at the same time as tourism geographers are welcomed and acknowledged within the wider tourism community. This article offers some reflections and an institutional perspective on the tourism-geography nexus. This is accomplished by reviewing the institutional and geographical affiliations of authors in the journal Tourism Geographies. It is shown that tourism geographies are successful globally, but for various reasons are increasingly marginalized within geography departments. Hence, it is concluded that tourism geographies seem to be moving out of geography departments, which may turn out to deprive students of learning about the geography of a major driver of global and regional change.

Evaluation of the Disciplinary Relations in Tourism Geography Research in Turkey with a Social Network Analysis

“…Bu doğrultuda çalıĢmanın amacı, sosyal ağ analizi ve uyum (correspondence) analizi teknikleri kullanılarak Türkiye'de turizm coğrafyası alanındaki lisansüstü tezlerde yararlanılan kaynakların alanlara/disiplinlere göre dağılımını ve tezlerin ulusal veya uluslararası literatürden beslenme durumunu ortaya koymak, tezlerde kullanılan kaynakların disiplinler arası etkileĢimini incelemek ve Turizm Coğrafyası alt disiplininin diğer disiplinlerle olan iliĢkisini tartıĢmaya açmaktır. Uluslararası literatürde turizm coğrafyasının (coğrafyalarının) post-disipliner iliĢkisine yönelik özellikle 2000 yılı sonrası önemli tartıĢmalar yaĢanmıĢ (Coles, Hall ve Duval, 2005, 2006Coles ve Hall, 2006;Hall ve Page, 2009;Hall, 2013;Müller, 2014;Müller, 2018), ancak ulusal literatürde bu tartıĢmalar konusunda herhangi bir çalıĢma yer almamıĢtır. Dolayısı ile çalıĢmanın diğer bir amacı da, uluslararası literatürde hala güncelliğini koruyan bu tartıĢmaları ulusal literatüre taĢıyarak katkıda bulunmaktır.…”

Introduction to A Research Agenda forTourism Geographies

“…Hence, it has been a topic of geographical inquiry since the early days of modern geographical research during the twentieth century, with its core concern for the role of place, space and environment (Hall andPage 2009, 2014). However, the position of tourism research within geography is contested, and not least in the Anglo-American sphere the establishment of specialized tourism departments, often within business schools, has entailed a movement of tourism geographers away from geography departments (Hall and Page 2009;Hall 2013;Wilson and Anton Clavé 2013;Müller 2014). Still, although tourism geographies may be marginalized in many geography departments, tourism geographers remain influential.…”

Challenges and opportunities for rural tourism geographies: a view from the ‘boring’ peripheries

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