Tourism Geography

"Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity."

"Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism."

"Geography is fundamental to the study of tourism because tourism is geographical in nature."

"Physical geography provides the essential background, against which tourism places are created and environmental impacts and concerns are major issues that must be considered in managing the development of tourism places."

"The approaches to study will differ according to the varying concerns."

"Much tourism management literature remains quantitative in methodology and considers tourism as consisting of the places of tourist origin (or tourist generating areas), tourist destinations (or places of tourism supply) and the relationship (connections) between origin and destination places."

"The Tourist by Dean MacCannell and The Tourist Gaze by John Urry are classics in this field."

"Cultural geography takes more theoretically diverse approaches to tourism, including a sociology of tourism, which extends beyond tourism as an isolated, exceptional activity."

"Sociology of tourism considers how travel fits into everyday lives and how tourism is not only a consumptive activity of places but also produces the sense of place at a destination."

"Tourism consists of the places of tourist origin, tourist destinations, and the relationships between them."

"The environmental impacts and concerns are major issues that must be considered in managing the development of tourism places."

"It is an activity in which both place characteristics and personal self-identities are formed through the relationships that are created among places, landscapes, and people."

"The relationship between origin and destination places includes transportation routes."

"Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests, including the geographies of tourism and leisure economies."

"The environmental impact of tourism is a key concern in tourism geography."

"Tourism geography studies tourism as an industry and as a social and cultural activity."

"Both place characteristics and personal self-identities are formed through the relationships that are created among places, landscapes, and people."

"Tourism involves movement and activities between places and it is an activity in which both place characteristics and personal self-identities are formed."

"Tourism is not only a consumptive activity of places but also produces the sense of place at a destination."

"Environmental impacts and concerns are major issues that must be considered in managing the development of tourism places."