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geography: 'A topic of special interest was the study of leisure, of the growing demand
for recreation activities on the environment' followed by reference to the work of
Patmore (1970, 1983) and Owens (1984). This is not to denigrate Johnston's magnificent
work of scholarship. It is probably an appropriate comment on the perception of the
standing of tourism and recreation geography in Anglo-American geography, that the
only area where tourism and recreation are considered significant is in rural areas where,
perhaps, tourists
Table 1.2:
Approaches to geography and their
relationship to the study of tourism and recreation
Approach
Key concepts
Exemplar publications
Spatial
analysis
Positivism, locational analysis,
maps, system, networks,
morphology
• spatial structure: Fesenmaier and Lieber 1987
• spatial analysis: S.L.J.Smith 1983b; Wall et
al. 1985; Hinch 1990; Ashworth and
Dietvorst 1995
• tourist flows and travel patterns: A.Williams
and Zelinsky 1970; Corsi and Harvey 1979;
Forer and Pearce 1984; D.G.Pearce 1987a,
1990a, 1993b, 1995a; Murphy and Keller
1990; Oppermann 1992
• gravity models: Malamud 1973; Bell 1977
• morphology: Pigram 1977
• regional analysis: S.L.J.Smith 1987
Behavioural
geography
Behaviouralism, behaviourism,
environmental perception, diffusion,
merntal maps, decision-making,
action spaces, spatial preference
• mental maps: Walmesley and Jenkins 1992;
Jenkins and Walmesley 1993
• environmental cognition: Aldskogius 1977
• tourist spatial behaviour: Carlson 1978;
Cooper 1981; Debbage 1991
• tourist behaviour: Murphy and Rosenblood
1974; Arbel and Pizam 1977; Pearce 1988a
• environmental perception: Wolfe 1970
• recreational displacement: Anderson and
Brown 1984
Humanistic
geography
Human agency, subjectivity of
analysis, hermeneutics, place,
landscape, existentialism,
phenomenology, ethnography,
lifeworld
• placelessness of tourism: Relph 1976
• historical geography: Wall and Marsh 1982;
Marsh 1985; Towner 1996
