Tourism Geographies Podcast
by Tourism Geographies
This podcast discusses recent research published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment. We talk with authors about their research contributions to share the why and how of their research.
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Critical localisms and commons governance in occupied surfscapes
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2594716 Abstract The niche field of critical surf studies examines localism as a ubiquitous phenomenon wherein experiences of place and belonging are negotiated through surfers’ differentiated positioning relative to surfing’s cultural imaginaries and...
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Hawai’i is shifting toward regenerative tourism, yet extractive logics persist
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2582648 Abstract Mass-tourism destinations are under criticism for intensifying climate risk, biodiversity loss, and social inequities, yet practical alternatives remain scarce. Hawai’i typifies this problem: since the 1970s, the archipelago has relied on a...
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Cultural performance in the Okinawan urban soundscape: music, sound, tourism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2578620 Abstract Okinawa prefecture is an archipelago in southwestern Japan. This article examines the urban musical soundscape of Kokusai Street in Naha City, Okinawa’s capital, where tourism, identity and sonic performance intersect to create a dynamic...
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Navigating the Galápagos paradox: tourism growth management discourses in protected areas
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2582669 Abstract In tourism literature and practice, pro-growth tourism management discourses argue that tourism growth can decouple from its negative impacts through improved management, whereas heterodox approaches reject tourism’s growth ethic and argue...
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Tourism destination development: the tourism area life cycle model
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2325932 Abstract The tourist area life cycle has been in existence for over four decades since its publication in The Canadian Geographer and was described as ‘one of the most cited and contentious areas of tourism knowledge….(and) has…
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Polar tourism and the changing geographies of the Arctic and the Antarctic regions
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2462777 Abstract The polar areas have long endured as an exotic playground for adventure in the wilderness. Tourism figures have remained low and hence the regions hold a marginal position in the global tourism system. Today, climate change and its…
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Macro level geoarbitrage and digital nomad policymaking in Portugal
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2598624 Abstract Portugal has become one of the most popular countries for digital nomadism in Europe, with Lisbon being a top-rated destination. The global digital nomad hotspots are usually more affordable destinations in which people can live better with...
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Tourism, creative destruction, and the political economy of urban transformation in Beirut
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2580393 Abstract This paper combines Schumpeter’s creative destruction concept with Harvey’s urban capital circulation theory to investigate the influence of political-economic structures and crisis settings on the development cycles of urban tourism...
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‘Las Vegas’ lights don’t shine here:’ Tourism placemaking in the Historic Westside
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2584356 Abstract This study focuses on Las Vegas’ Historic Westside and analyzes how prolonged historical geographies of segregation shaped the area’s tourism present and future. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, railway and highway...
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Justice in tourism geographies
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2594713 Abstract Tourism geographers have long addressed the spatiality of injustice, taking concern with the struggles over access to resources and capital that shape inequities in tourism-dominant landscapes. And yet, the substance of justice, that is, what...
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Counter-narrative place-making
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2593978 Abstract Dominant narratives in tourism shape perceptions of place, often marginalising certain localities, people, and perspectives. This study examines digital counter-narrative place-making in rural communities and the equalising possibilities it…
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From Mauss’ gift theory to regenerative tourism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2604082 Abstract What if the future of sustainable tourism lies not in transactions, but in the ancient wisdom of reciprocity and relational ethics? This conceptual paper applies Jaakkola’s theory adaptation approach by revising tourism concepts through the...
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Advancing accessible tourism geographies
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2593982 Abstract This collection advances geographic approaches to accessible tourism through six contributions that collectively double the published resources on this topic within Tourism Geographies. Accessible tourism enables people...
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Reshaping landscapes and human–environment relationships through geotourism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2575314 Abstract This study examines how the designation of Batur as Indonesia’s first UNESCO Global Geopark in 2012 has reshaped volcanic landscapes, socio-economic structures, and cultural life in Bali. Drawing on the framework of Landscape Political…
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Indigenous-settler relations at work in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park’s tourism industry
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2562976 Abstract The Australian settler government has repeatedly promised Indigenous peoples (Anangu) of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park that they will benefit from settler government’s use of their lands as a significant tourism destination, yet the Anangu...
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Regenerative shift: community-based ecotourism through culinary value chain and experiencing place lenses
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2533471 Abstract This study investigates the regenerative potential of community-based ecotourism (CBET) through the lens of culinary value chains and experiential perspectives, analyzing their role in promoting cultural preservation, environmental…
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Militourism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2417853 Abstract This review tracks the genealogy of the term militourism and its development and use since the early 1990s primarily through the scholarship of Teresia Teaiwa. It begins with a discussion of the concept’s emergence, with particular attention…
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Contested sacred space: state power, spatial politics, and heritage tourism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2495192 Abstract The global rise of heritage tourism has intensified struggles over the ownership, meaning, and spatial governance of religious sites, yet the contested interplay of ideology, power, and sacred space remains understudied. This article…
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Bridging (over)tourism geographies: proposing a systems approach in overtourism research
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2502507 Abstract This paper utilises bibliometric data on peer-reviewed publications to examine the characteristics and dominant narratives in overtourism research to date. Departing from earlier state-of-the-art reviews, it introduces a spatial perspective...
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The tourism periphery: from structural hierarchies of place to relational ontology
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2404643
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Navigating a changing Arctic: toward adaptive governance in Greenland and Svalbard
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2515098 Abstract Tourism is vital in ensuring thriving communities in peripheral areas of the Arctic. However, many Arctic destinations have seen a dramatic increase in visitors, raising concerns about their ability to withstand tourism pressures....
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Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2516098 Abstract Individual preferences are known to be influenced by people’s lived experience at home and on holidays, however, the factors contributing to higher or lower resource demands by hotel guests are not well understood. We advance a practice-based...
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From project to venture: facilitating engagement and entrepreneurship in rural tourism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2519331 Abstract Projects are a standard strategy for rural tourism development. This study builds on the premise that sustainable rural tourism is conditioned by the involvement of key stakeholders and entrepreneurs’ ability to creatively and responsibly...
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Lifestyle migration and the emergence of ‘Airbnburbs’ in the Global South
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2504039 Abstract Airbnb research has focused primarily on a small number of Western countries. This study examines Airbnb and its hosts in a destination in the Global South—Bocas del Toro, Panama. Through an exploration of the nexus between Airbnb hosting and...
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Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2495175 Abstract Cultural memory, which shapes a collective understanding of historical experiences and influences identity, is crucial in the Indigenous context but has been understudied in tourism. This study examines the role of the Guthi system, a…
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Space tourism and sustainable trajectory
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2525815 Abstract The commercial spaceflight industry is progressing rapidly. Yet, there is a lack of research theorising what the spatio-temporal contours of sustainability look like if the biosphere, along with its finite resources and...
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The tourism-migration nexus: working holiday visa politics and repurposing tourists as labour
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2506523?src= Abstract The ‘working holiday’ model of youth mobility has evolved alongside backpacking in recent decades. Increasingly, backpackers on working holidays are seen as a potential labour source in many nations, due to the...
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Politics of tourism in public land use management: a reflexive treatise
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2516837 Abstract This paper examines the political geography of land use management in developed western economies. It explains why tourism stakeholders continue to struggle to gain legitimacy in many protected area management decisions....
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On the Verge: the State-of-the-Art in tourism geographies
Abstract Since the launch of Tourism Geographies in 1999, annual international tourist arrivals have surged from 664 million to 1.4 billion, with greater numbers of domestic tourists traversing within borders. Transportation improvements have made travel more efficient, affordable, and…
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Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2493776?src=exp-la Abstract This study explores how local communities in Fiji perceive the portrayal of their home in films. Yet little is known how local communities collectively construct and interpret the cinematic representations of...
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Dark tourism and spectral geographies: ghosts, memories, and the rupturing of absence and presence
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2502997 Abstract This paper explores the intersection of dark tourism and spectral geographies, offering a critical examination of how spaces of death, disaster, trauma, and painful memories are shaped by hauntings and spectral presence. Drawing on hauntology...
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Industrial heritage tourism in Macau: reinventing the Iec Long firecracker factory
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2495179 Abstract Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) located in the south of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Settled by the Portuguese it was the last European colony in Asia. Over the centuries as a maritime city Macau saw its fortunes…
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25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2462222 Abstract Over the past twenty-five years, conceptualisations regarding where, when and how tourists travel have undergone profound changes. For many years, surveys, maps relying on tourists’ recall, and physical surveillance were...
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Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412550 Abstract Digital volunteer tourism (DVT) has emerged as a viable alternative to positively impact destinations when travel is impossible during times of crisis. This leaves volunteers, the ‘agents’ in volunteer projects and development work, who might...
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The Value of Podcasts for Research Dissemination: The Tourism Geographies Podcast
Abstract How effective are podcasts in disseminating academic research and engaging audiences beyond traditional scholarly channels? This study investigates the Tourism Geographies Podcast to assess its value as a research communication tool. The objectives were to explore how podcast…
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Future Trends in Tourism Geographies and Podcast Reflections
In this episode, the Tourism Geographies Podcast editors reflect on the first three seasons, highlighting what they enjoyed most about the producing the podcasts. Further, the editors reflect on different trends in tourism geographies scholarship. Thanks for listening.
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Polar tourism and the changing geographies of the Arctic and the Antarctic regions
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2462777 Abstract The polar areas have long endured as an exotic playground for adventure in the wilderness. Tourism figures have remained low and hence the regions hold a marginal position in the global tourism system. Today, climate…
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Regenerative tourism development as a response to crisis: harnessing practise-led approaches
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2381071 Abstract The pandemic has drawn attention to the unsustainable nature of tourism, intensifying social and economic inequalities and heightening issues of urban vulnerability. As destinations reimagine their future, a holistic...
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Tourist motivations in relation to a battlefield: a case study of Kinmen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2017.1385094 ABSTRACT To assess tourist motivations at the battlefield site on Kinmen Island of Taiwan, an empirical investigation was conducted. From a convenience sample, we collected 437 effective responses of respondents including domestic...
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Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2464101 Abstract This study analyzed tourism history, management, and impacts in the city of Asheville in Western North Carolina, a prime tourism location for over a century. First marketed for its healthful mountain air in the mid-1800s,...
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Entangled engagements: a posthumanist and affirmative ethics for tourism geographies
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2330574 Abstract This review summarizes some key moments in the development of ethics in tourism research and practice where three main areas of concern are identified: socio-economic inequalities, cultural discriminations, and...
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Applying regenerative thinking in yachting tourism. Insights from the Northern Adriatic Sea
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2446354 Abstract The ‘turn to the sea’ through yachting tourism recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic prompts the relocation of the sea, including its nature and culture, back at the centre of processes of change in selected coastal...
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Island tourism: past, present, and prospects
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2423155 Abstract This commentary reviews the state of island tourism literature with specific reference to publications in the journal Tourism Geographies. Despite over 44 years of literature about island tourism, the field remains underdeveloped, with…
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Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2446355 Abstract Today’s multiple crises call for alternative approaches to tourism and nature contemplation. Neoliberal conservation proposes the commodification of nature as a solution to these crises, for instance, through tourism...
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Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2381061 Abstract This state-of-the art review provides an overview of feminist analyses of tourism that have been published in Tourism Geographies since 1999. The review first introduces feminisms as political projects, forms of activism,...
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NOvation and Indigenous struggle for land: Club Med’s failure in New Caledonia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2446356 Abstract Tourism development can significantly affect the environment and communities in popular travel destinations, often overpowering Indigenous peoples by the sheer dominance of this economic sector. However, the local...
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Indigenous Peoples’ rights and tourism: thinking about colonisation
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2395469 Abstract Advancement of Indigenous rights through tourism requires practitioners and researchers to think carefully about the roles and responsibilities of Indigenous methodologies and decolonising work. In adopting a stance of...
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Assembling tigers, dragons and hells: relational materialist geographies of curated themed spaces
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412551 Abstract Themed spaces and theme parks constitute of significant human-based desires and linguistic discourses that stabilises/destabilises their social identities and materialities. This paper draws on a relational materialist...
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Regenerative tourism as a post-disaster response: lessons from Cammino nelle Terre Mutate
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2381062 Abstract Disasters, resulting from natural hazards, have a profound impact on communities and places, revealing vulnerabilities while shaping unique identities. Regenerative tourism offers promise in aiding recovery and...
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A holistic and pluralistic perspective for justice through tourism: a regenerative approach
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2372114 Abstract Justice is integral in transformative tourism approaches that call for a complete restructuring of the travel and tourism sector worldwide. While justice through alternative tourism models promotes responsible…
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This podcast discusses recent research published in Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment.
We talk with authors about their research contributions to share the why and how of their research.
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