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multiplicity of 'critical turns' as observed in relation to research on the economy of tourism
spaces in
Chapter 19,
while in
Chapter 20,
Dallen Timothy centres on tourism research from
historical geography perspectives.
In two highly complementary and timely chapters with a neo-behaviouralist slant,
C. Michael Hall
(Chapter 21)
and Noam Shoval
(Chapter 22)
examine spatial analysis
in tourism geographies and time geography in tourism studies respectively. Alan Lew
focuses on geography and the marketing of tourism destinations in
Chapter 23,
comple-
menting T.C. Chang's contribution on place and tourism spaces in the previous part of the
book
(Chapter 17)
.
The fi nal four chapters in
Part III
are based on distinct approaches to framing and
researching tourism geographies, namely; international development (Marcela Palomino-
Schalscha,
Chapter 24),
environmental discourses (Andrew Holden,
Chapter 25),
landscape
(Daniel Knudsen, Jillian Rickly-Boyd and Michelle Metro-Roland,
Chapter 26)
and trans-
port (specifi cally international air transport; David Duval and Tay T.R. Koo,
Chapter 27).
Providing an examination of tourism geographies in specifi c spatial settings and contexts,
Part IV o
n 'Situating tourism geographies' contains four chapters covering recent develop-
ments and tendencies in research on urban, rural and coastal domains in tourism geographies.
Salvador Anton Clavé (
Chapter 28)
rethinks the rhetoric of research on mass tourism to date
and attempts to provide a balanced approach to understanding the phenomenon in relation to
space and place, considering so-called 'mass' tourism resorts as complex and idiosyncratic
urban structures that have not really been recognised and are not treated as such in regulatory
and policy terms. Gunjan Saxena evaluates current progress and paradoxes in the fi eld of rural
tourism geographies (
Chapter 29)
while in
Chapter 30
Martin Selby focuses on the urban
context, examining geographies of tourism and the city. In the fi nal chapter in
Part IV,
Gareth Shaw and Sheela Agarwal provide us with a contextualisation of research on the
changing geographies of coastal resorts, with a particular focus on development processes
(Chapter 31
).
In the fi nal part of the volume, entitled 'Advancing tourism geographies', I attempt to
synthesise the research perspectives and agendas that emerge from the previous parts, focusing
on the realm of tourism geographies in a post-disciplinary age
(Chapter 32)
.
