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contributions to make, the discussion turned towards the future of geographical urban
tourism research.
There has been a marked cultural turn in human geography (see Gale, Chapter 4 i n this
volume), and, recently, a degree of tension between representational and non-representational
approaches. It has been argued in this chapter, therefore, that fi nding a satisfactory conceptual
bridge between the two is perhaps the most substantive challenge facing researchers in this
fi eld. Urban tourism as a phenomenon introduces challenges for cultural geographers, and it is
argued that these have not been entirely and satisfactorily resolved under the banner of
non-representational geography.
It would seem to be an opportune time to start building upon the important repositioning
away from the purely representational, and, in the context of urban tourism at least, to move
on from a preoccupation with metaphors. To this end, it has been argued that the phenome-
nology of Schutz (1972) and Merleau-Ponty (1962) has much to contribute, whilst avoiding
the dichotomies inherent in such metaphors. It is argued, therefore, that phenomenology can
help to address the urgent need for urban tourism research to focus on the 'monism of
phenomena' (Sartre, 1969).
 
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