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Searching for discoveries with Instagram: touristification ‘from below’ in the German Ruhr Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Victoria Huszka
The importance of social media for the production and imagination of tourist sites has long been acknowledged in tourism studies. Research on spatial exploration with social media has indicated tha...
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A holistic and pluralistic perspective for justice through tourism: a regenerative approach Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Stefan Lazic, Maria Della Lucia
Justice is integral in transformative tourism approaches that call for a complete restructuring of the travel and tourism sector worldwide. While justice through alternative tourism models promotes...
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Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Elisa Burrai, Davide Sterchele
Volunteer tourism has long represented a fruitful realm for the application of geographic perspectives and has greatly benefitted from them. Yet, despite the progress made through multi-, inter-, a...
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Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 William Nitzky
Dr. Valene L. Smith is a name that is known across tourism and anthropology circles as one of the founding mothers of the study of tourism. Not only is she credited for the ground-breaking 1977 edi...
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A critical reflection on tourism geopolitics: research progress and future agenda Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Yan Huang, Yungang Liu
Tourism and geopolitics are intrinsically linked. However, current studies on the geopolitical facets of tourism are insufficient. This article first reflects on the diversified understandings of g...
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Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Donna James
The boundaries between tourism and migration are blurry. This blurring has been beneficial for the governments of wealthy countries enabling them to import a large and flexible temporary workforce ...
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Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Jennifer M. Thomsen, Renata Kika Bradford, Keith Bosak, João B. Lino, Lorena Brewster, André A. Cunha
The Kalunga Territory, located in the Brazilian Cerrado in the state of Goias, is rich in biodiversity, and is home to 39 quilombola communities providing a unique opportunity for community-based t...
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Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Mimi Sheller
This commentary reflects on the geopolitical and the kinopolitical intersections of tourist places, performances, and placemaking. All tourism can be said to be geopolitical, as well as kinopolitic...
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The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Ning An, Junxi Qian
While scholars have increasingly focused on the intersectional analysis of tourism and geopolitics, the material and affective dimensions underlying the geopolitical implications of tourism remain ...
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Rethinking rurality in rural tourism: a new materialist approach Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Marlisa Ayu Trisia, Lluís Prats, Jaume Guia
The concept of rurality has been widely debated among scholars, yet rarely questioned in tourism research. We argue that new approaches to rurality in rural tourism research need to be explored if ...
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The enduring legacy of Valene Smith’s ‘Hosts and Guests’ on tourism studies Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Ploysri Porananond
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Loretta Bellato, Niki Frantzeskaki, Christian (Andi) Nygaard
Regenerative tourism is a transformational approach to healing relationships between tourism, places and communities. Several urban rivers are being made swimmable (again) to mitigate against negat...
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The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Qiaoyun Zhang, Shuru Zhong
This study asks how specters have made disaster sites enchanting and important places of dark tourism, resonating with the history of the site and reconciling its current existence. The research is...
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Toward a critical geopolitics of smart tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Tim Oakes
This brief commentary develops an argument for a critical geopolitics of smart tourism. Several critical geopolitical issues related to smart tourism deserve more attention in tourism studies, incl...
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Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Laurel Mei-Singh, Mary Mostafanezhad, Tazim Jamal
Maui residents are reckoning with tourism in the aftermath of the 2023 fires. Drawing from historical sources and popular media reports, we argue that beyond the island’s strained relationship with...
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The values that linger: a tribute to Valene Smith Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Carter Hunt
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A state-of-the-art-review of animals in tourism: key debates and future directions Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Mucha Mkono, Karen Hughes
Alongside the growth in the animal-based tourism industry, the volume and diversity of research on related issues has increased considerably over the last half century. The extant literature explor...
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Tracking tourist mobility in the big data era: insights from data, theory, and future directions Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Jinyan Chen, Noam Shoval, Bela Stantic
With the increasing popularity of big data analytics, significant research has been conducted in the field of tourism and hospitality studies, particularly in the form of reviews that examine curre...
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Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Michael A. Di Giovine
Written by the Convenor of the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG) at the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Board and membership, this memorial article celebrates the ...
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In memory of Dr. Valene L. Smith Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Shinji Yamashita
Valene L. Smith is best known as the editor of the successful book Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. Her life was dedicated to the anthropological study of tourism. In this article com...
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Indexing Valene Smith’s contributions to the Anthropology of tourism and tourism studies Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Margaret Byrne Swain
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Valene Smith, tourism, and the remapping of anthropological terrain Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Kathleen M. Adams
This article argues that Valene Smith’s contributions were fundamental for mapping out the terrain for what was envisioned as an ‘anthropology of tourism.’ As the first major collection of anthropo...
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Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Maureen Ayikoru
This conceptual essay extends decolonisation debates to the broader context of decoloniality of praxis. It acknowledges the significance of epistemological and pedagogical decolonisation but argues...
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Correction Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-29
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2024)
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National tourism organizations and climate change Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Stefan Gössling, Ralf Vogler, Andreas Humpe, Ning (Chris) Chen
There is a consensus that the global tourism system needs to undergo decarbonization and achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century. However, given the anticipated growth in the most energy-intensiv...
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Tourism geopolitics: roots and branches Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Jamie Gillen
This paper critically reviews tourism geopolitics’ lifespan with a focus on both recent developments and its longer history. Contemporary times show increased attention paid by geographers to touri...
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Entangled engagements: a posthumanist and affirmative ethics for tourism geographies Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jaume Guia, Tazim Jamal
This review summarizes some key moments in the development of ethics in tourism research and practice where three main areas of concern are identified: socio-economic inequalities, cultural discrim...
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Climate change and tourism geographies Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Stefan Gössling, Daniel Scott
Climate change is no longer in the future, it is an evolving business and policy reality for tourism. Extreme weather events including heavy rainfall and flooding, drought, heat waves, storms, and ...
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International development and tourism geographies Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Regina Scheyvens
This commentary reviews the state of tourism and international development scholarship with special attention to publications from this journal, Tourism Geographies. Rather than assuming that touri...
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Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Qingyun Pang, Zuhui Liao, Honggen Xiao
Developing and coordinating knowledge within the tourism industry, education, and academia, as well as facilitating knowledge transfer, present significant challenges. This study introduces a novel...
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Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rebecca E. Pearson, Douglas K. Bardsley, Marco Pütz
The tourism industry is complex and deeply embedded into the social, environmental, and cultural fabric of social-ecological systems. Tourism presents an additional rural development pathway for re...
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The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Dan Knox
The spectral geography of the colonial legacy in Bristol is marked by a series of absences from official and tourist narratives about the city. The people and practices of the Atlantic slave trade ...
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Geopolitics of mobile masses: refugee and tourist metaphors in Finnish-Russian bordertown media Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Vilhelmiina Vainikka, Joni Tuomas Vainikka, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
This paper examines the discourses on mobile others as objects of massification or likened to natural forces. By creating a dialogue between theories of crowds/masses and popular geopolitics, we ex...
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Vlogging gastronomic tourism: understanding Global North-South dynamics in YouTube videos and their audiences’ feedback Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ateeq Abdul Rauf, Fahad Mansoor Pasha
Gastronomic tourism is a developed research stream in tourism studies. Previous literature, however, has mainly shed light either on the micro-context of food itself or on meso-contexts such as her...
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Tourism destination development: the tourism area life cycle model Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Richard Butler
The tourist area life cycle has been in existence for over four decades since its publication in The Canadian Geographer and was described as ‘one of the most cited and contentious areas of tourism...
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Significance of biocultural heritage, cultural landscape and islandness for responsible tourism: a Knoydart case study Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Tamara Griffiths
The COVID-19 pandemic, environmental crisis and increasing growth in tourism prompted interest in more responsible tourism. So called responsible tourism (RT) entails diverse ingredients and an aim...
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Opening Pandora’s box: the making of cannabis tourism in Thailand Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Alexandre Veilleux
In 2022, Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize the possession of cannabis. Despite the government’s unwillingness to legalize recreational cannabis or promote cannabis tourism,...
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Dark tourism geographies: ontological, epistemological and axiological perspectives Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Nitasha Sharma, Annaclaudia Martini
In this state-of-the-art review, we provide an overview of past debates and current trends in dark tourism geographies, and conceptually examine its theoretical intersections with critical issues, ...
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Phygital time geography, or: what about technology in tourists’ space-time behaviour? Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Micol Mieli, Malin Zillinger, Jan-Henrik Nilsson
The paper argues for the renewed relevance of time geography in tourism in light of the use of mobile technologies and ubiquitous connectivity. The paper proposes the concept of phygitality to unde...
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Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Dharug Ngurra, Lexodious Dadd, Corina Norman, Venessa Possum, Marnie Graham, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Harriet Narwal, Rebecca Scott, Jessica Lemire
In this article, we centre the voices and experiences of children engaged over several years in Indigenous tourism initiatives on Dharug Country (Dharug Ngurra) in Western Sydney, Australia. As Dh...
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Gaze and reflexivity in postcolonial cinema: the pragmatic turn in critical tourism studies Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Rich Harrill, David A. Cardenas, Leonardo L. A. N. Dioko, Alex Arhin
This article examines the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical integration of postcolonial cinema into critical tourism education. These works help viewers understand the influence of film ...
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From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’? Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Piotr Niewiadomski, Patrick Brouder
Although sustainable tourism research is a rich and diverse field, it still suffers from a few important shortcomings. Negligible attention has been given to various possible pathways to sustainabl...
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Commentary: transitions research and sustainable tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jonathan Köhler
This commentary discusses the growing connections between sustainable tourism research and the sustainability transitions literature. The common ground between sustainability transitions and sustai...
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Sustainability transitions in tourism: on the transformation of a fragmented sector Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Thomas Magnusson, Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Karin Wigger, Göran Andersson
This conceptual paper argues that there are unrealized benefits from a cross-fertilization between research on sustainable tourism and sustainability transitions studies. With the aim to stimulate ...
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From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 David Flood Chavez, Piotr Niewiadomski, Tod Jones
Until the end of WW2, the Margaret River region (MRR) was a popular domestic destination based on cave explorations. A series of incremental innovations between the 1950s and 1990s reconfigured the...
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Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Irma Booyens, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, Kristy Langerman, Kate Rivett-Carnac
Transitions to low-carbon energy are central to sustainability transitions, with electricity being a pressing current concern both in South Africa and globally. Economic, social, institutional, and...
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Transitioning towards sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides: an evolutionary investigation Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Piotr Niewiadomski, Victoria Mellon
While there is rich research on tourism destination evolution, the literature on how normative social and environmental goals (as opposed to contingent events or economic imperatives) drive the evo...
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Urban tourism transitions: doughnut economics applied to sustainable tourism development Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Shirley Nieuwland
Issues with social and ecological sustainability in tourism should be seen as the result of widespread neoliberal policy making. This has led to tourism strategies that focus largely on growth of v...
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Going the distance: endurance philanthropy, spectacle, and development in Central America Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Rebecca Clouser, Jillian M. Rickly
The increasing popularity of fusing adventure, humanitarianism, and travel has received attention from scholars within the fields of leisure and tourism studies, particularly regarding widespread a...
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Correction Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-07
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Traveling to escape, resist, and belong: centering black experiences within tourism scholarship Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Alana Dillette, Stefanie Benjamin, Derek Alderman
Examining the contemporary movement of Black Travel, the special issue explores the intersection of racial inequities, Black belonging, and tourism, drawing inspiration from articles published in t...
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Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Tatjana Walpersberger, Ulrike Gretzel
Vanlife as a hypermobile travel practice relies heavily on online storytelling to connect its members and promote its values. Setting itself apart from sedentary and materialistic forms of living a...
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Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Abbie-Gayle Johnson
Destinations with populations of African descent have continuously experienced negative stereotypes portrayed in traditional Western print media. These narratives have expanded to fake news circula...
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Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, Alana Dillette
In marking 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived to Jamestown, United States in 1619, the Ghana government through the Ghana Tourism Authority initiated the Year of Return 2019 (#YOR2...
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Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Amy E. Potter, Matthew R. Cook, LaToya E. Eaves, Perry Carter, Candace Forbes Bright
According to the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), there are more than 200 African American history and cultural museums—or other sites with substantial African American collections s...
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Advancing evolutionary economic geographies of tourism: trigger events, transformative moments and destination path shaping Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Laura James, Henrik Halkier, Cinta Sanz-Ibáñez, Julie Wilson
The study of tourism destination evolution has been enriched in recent years by the adoption of concepts from Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG). The aim of this article and those constituting t...
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Sense of community and well-being in diaspora festivals Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Ermias Kifle Gedecho, Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Honggen Xiao
This study was prompted by a lack of empirical research addressing the overlap between sense of community and eudemonic well-being components, the limited attention paid to immigrant perspectives i...
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Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Arie Stoffelen, Dallen J. Timothy
The interplay between borders and tourism has fascinated tourism geographers for decades. However, only recently has tourism geographies research on borders mirrored border studies by interweaving ...
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List of Reviewers Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-21
Published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment (Vol. 25, No. 8, 2023)
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Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda Tourism Geographies (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mingming Cheng
The fast-changing social media landscape have seen a paradigm shift in how we interact with and research space, place and environment in tourism. Social media presents both challenges and opportuni...