Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice
This is a space to share research and trends in global tourism geographies research, policy and practice.
- 🚩 Social Media Editor needed for Tourism Geographies. 🔗 See full details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...? 🔺 Application deadline, 6 January 2026.
- 🎙️ On this week's episode of the Tourism Geographies Podcast, we feature esteemed researcher Bob McKercher, who discusses his recently published article, "Politics of tourism in public land use management: a reflexive treatise".
- 💥 Key takeaways: 🔸 The politics of ‘sustainability’ are highly polarised, with stakeholder groups establishing clearly defined inter-organisational relationships or advocacy groups presenting either a weak or strong sustainability agenda.
- Tourism does not fit well into either group, and as such, has difficulty building trust and establishing firm alliances with either group in the corridors of power.
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View full thread🔗 You can read the full article here: McKercher, B. (2025). Politics of tourism in public land use management: a reflexive treatise. Tourism Geographies, 27(5), 939–960. doi.org/10.1080/1461... 🆓 OPEN ACCESS + FREE to DOWNLOAD
- 💥 What's new in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES? ➡️ See a select bunch of papers fresh off the production line. @tandfresearch.bsky.social, @jmcheer.bsky.social
- 🔗 Dunn, A., & Judd, B. (2025). Indigenous-settler relations at work in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park’s tourism industry. Tourism Geographies, 1–16. doi.org/10.1080/1461... HANDLING EDITOR: Keir Reeves 🆓 OPEN ACCESS - FREE TO DOWNLOAD
- 🔗 Mellors, J., & Cole, S. (2025). The case for consortium authorship in tourism research. Tourism Geographies, 1–6. doi.org/10.1080/1461... HANDLING EDITOR: Patrick Brouder 🆓 OPEN ACCESS - FREE TO DOWNLOAD
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View full thread🔗 Zhang, Y., & Wang, H. (2025). Heritage in simulation: the heritagisation of a Chinese theme park. Tourism Geographies, 1–21. doi.org/10.1080/1461... HANDLING EDITOR: Harng Luh Sin
- 📷 In Episode 6 (Season 4) of the Tourism Geographies Podcast, Season 4, we feature Marit Piirman. 📷 Listen to the podcast episode here: open.spotify.com/show/4O0M23U...
- 📷 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1461...
- 🚩 What's new in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES? ➡️ Check out this recently published cutting-edge research! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @tandfonline.bsky.social @jmcheer.bsky.social
- 🔸 Gibson, C., Gillen, J., Ioannides, D., Molz, J. G., Saarinen, J., & Scheyvens, R. (2025). Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework. Tourism Geographies, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS - FREE TO DOWNLOAD
- 🔸 Lu, S. E., Yang, E. C. L., Moyle, B., & Reid, S. (2025). Inclusive research in tourism: are we enabling or disabling people with disability? Tourism Geographies, 1–25. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS - FREE TO DOWNLOAD
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View full thread🔸 Moufakkir, O. (2025). Out of sight: invisible journeys of queer Muslim travelers in tourism studies. Tourism Geographies, 1–10. doi.org/10.1080/1461...
- 🎙️ In Episode 2, Season 4 of the THE TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES PODCAST, we feature Cristina Trifan, University of Westminster, UK & Claudia Dolezal, MC Krems University of Applied Sciences, Austria.
- Listen to the podcast here: shows.acast.com/tourism-geog...
- 🆓 The paper is OPEN ACCESS and FREE to download. 🔗 Trifan, C. A., & Dolezal, C. (2024). Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality.’ Tourism Geographies, 26(8), 1293–1312. doi.org/10.1080/1461...
- 🚩 What's new in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES? 📈 EVALUATING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TOURISM IN GERMANY’S BIOSPHERE RESERVES
- 🔗 Majewski, L., Bittlingmaier, S., Frieser, A., Woltering, M., & Job, H. (2025). Evaluating the economic impact of tourism in Germany’s Biosphere Reserves. Tourism Geographies, 1–21. doi.org/10.1080/1461...
- 🌳 Biosphere Reserves serve as models for sustainable development, fostering balanced interactions between humans and nature. In this framework, tourism supports local economies and awareness of sustainable practices, as well as conservation, management, and development efforts.
- New paper from @uni-wuerzburg.de on the the economic impact of tourism in Germany’s #Biosphere Reserves. A contribution to the special issue of @tourismgeographies.bsky.social on "Sustainable Tourism Geographies in #UNESCO Biosphere Reserves" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 🎉 Season 4 of the TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES PODCAST kicks off today! 🎙️ To get Season 4 off to a flying start, we feature the forthcoming paper by Prof. Stephen Pratt - "The Value of Podcasts for Research Dissemination: The Tourism Geographies Podcast".
- 🗣️ In this episode, Steve reflects on 3 seasons as Executive Producer of the podcast series and looks at the evidence supporting how podcasts can help research dissemination beyond the academic bubble. 🎧 Listen to the podcast here: shows.acast.com/tourism-geog...
- 🌳 Ancestral tourism may be the best route for community-based tourism, which works to empower communities to take charge of telling their own stories. english.elpais.com/internationa...
- ✅ “Community-based tourism reconciles the permanence of communities in their territories with environmental conservation. Conventional tourism can’t visit waterfalls in conservation areas. We can, because our sustainable flow and community practices respect protected areas,”
- ✅ "The challenge is to grow without the advertising logic of predatory tourism" ⬇️ For a deep dive on the topic, Ancestral Tourism, check out Solène Prince's recent article in Tourism Geographies. doi.org/10.1080/1461... 🆓 OPEN ACCESS and FREE to DOWNLOAD
- Putting the 'management' back into Destination Management. ✅ "We must act with two main ideas in mind: the protection and preservation of the environment; and ensuring that tourism is in harmony with our society, Tourism cannot be a burden on citizens". www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
- ✅ "The rules, while they might sound rigid and punitive when listed out, are all about encouraging responsible and empathetic travelling. They are designed to protect the holiday experiences of the vast majority of people who behave responsibly on holiday."
- ✅ The Session Proposal DEADLINE for the IGU Regional Conference, Istanbul 2026 has been extended to 14 August, 2025! 🌏 The IGU Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change invites your participation and your leadership on pressing topics in tourism and leisure.
- ➡️ Submit session proposals here: www.irc2026.org/SessionForm/ 👀 See full conference details here: www.irc2026.org/en/ Once session proposals are accepted, the promotion of sessions to contributors will begin.
- 📢New publication in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social! How do destinations evolve over time - not just economically, but through complex, multi-scalar relations and agentic forces? We analyze these dynamics in #Jalisco #Mexico since 1930 @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 🚩 New research just out in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES ♻️ FRAMEWORK FOR REGENERATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TOURISM: FOSTERING RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN PLACE 🗣️ By Roosa Ridanpää, University of Oulu, Finland
- ✅ This paper focuses on tourism enterprises and their responsibilities, contributing to the notion of regenerative tourism entrepreneurship - empirical foundation is based on interviews conducted in Northern Finland, where tourism SMiEs are balancing tourism growth and sustainability requirements.
- The paper is available OPEN ACCESS and FREE to download Roosa Ridanpää (2025): Framework for regenerative entrepreneurship in tourism: fostering reciprocal relationships within place, Tourism Geographies, doi.org/10.1080/1461...
- 🚩 New research just out in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES ✈️ MOBILE RESEARCH PRACTICES: OPEN-ENDED TRAVEL AS METHODOLOGICAL INTERVENTION 🗣️ By Chris Gibson, University of Sydney, Australia
- 🧭 What kinds of research practices are needed to respond to a simultaneously more volatile and controlled world—a world fraught with deepening contradictions and social chasms - in which censorship, AI, and corporate infiltration of university life are very real threats to critical independence.
- The paper is available OPEN ACCESS and FREE to download Chris Gibson (2025): Mobile research practices: open-ended travel as methodological intervention, Tourism Geographies, doi.org/10.1080/1461...
- On the vexing nature of digital nomads and their integration into the local community (or not). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- 🚩 A Call for Papers 🌏 Special Issue in Tourism Geographies 🧭 Geographies of Personalisation and Immersion in Tourism Experiencescapes 🔗 See full details: www.tgjournal.com/personalisat...
