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including migration, transportation, destination development, urbanisation and rurality. The
linkages between these and tourism is clear. The focus of historical geography is the past and
its resources, peoples and places (Hagen, 2009). This is also the very foundation of heritage
tourism.
Above all, historical geographers deal with cultural landscapes and how they were formed.
Cultural landscapes are among the most valued tourism resources in the world today and
include cities, agricultural landscapes, villages, archaeological sites and, in short, all manifes-
tations or outcomes of the human-environment interface. UNESCO recognises the impor-
tance of cultural landscapes, which are now considered a key criterion in determining a
region's or site's suitability for inscription on the World Heritage List (Aplin, 2007). As long
as human heritage is utilised as a tourism resource, there will be a need for a historical under-
standing of the world around us. Thus, there will always be a need for a geographical subfi eld
that helps people understand and interpret the inseparable constructs of time and place.
