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Figure 3.13: The domains of hospitality activities
Source: modified from Lashley (2000:4)
breadth of definition with the use of the social, private and commercial domains of
hospitality (Figure 3.13). Each domain represents one aspect of hospitality which is both
independent and overlapping. From the social domain, the social setting of hospitality
shapes the production and consumption of food/drink/accommodation. In the private
domain, the issues of hospitableness and the host: guest encounter and cultural context of
these relationships became important. In the commercial domain, the focus is on the
production of hospitality services and their consumption as an economic activity.
For the geographer, much of the research has been conceived in the empiricist
tradition and primarily concerned with employment in hospitality, its spatial form and
processes shaping the supply of hospitality businesses (Getz et al. 2004; Hall and Rusher
2004). Again, this area of research is particularly underdeveloped and certainly is well
situated to utilise a wide range of research approaches (Walle 1997) and agendas ranging
from an empiricist mode to new cultural geographies. Indeed, the growing interest in the
relationships between tourist, food production, regionalisation and wine is certainly
opening new domains for the spatially inclined (Hall et al. 2000a, 2000b; Hall and
Mitchell 2002). Therefore, with a range of processes operating (e.g. globalisation and
McDonaldization) and concerns for the meaning of hospitality in a post-modern society
(A.Williams 2000), it is clear that geographers have been ominous by their absence from
debates in this area.
Tourist shopping
A number of studies in the tourism and leisure literature have expanded the knowledge
base on tourist shopping, providing more detailed insights on this increasingly important
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