Tourism Geographies Podcast

Mary Mostafanezhad talks with Dean MacCannell about the concept of authenticity. 1.     Where does the question of authenticity originate? 2.     What do you think are some of the biggest challenges of the authenticity concept? 3 What do you think are biggest misconceptions about authenticity in tourism research/among tourism researchers?  4 T...

Joseph Cheer talks to Ugljesa Stankov about mindfulness. Abstract This is a follow-up to the study ‘A mindful shift: an opportunity for mindfulness-driven tourism in a post-pandemic world’, which was published in  Tourism Geographies . The original paper advocated that, during a major crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus could be put on (more) mindful tourists as a driver of mind...

Joseph Cheers talks to Johanna Loehr about climate change risk. Abstract Transformational system change is required to respond to the current climate emergency and the COVID-19 induced structural break presents an opportunity to progress such change. While the tourism industry accepts the need for change, how this may look like remains unclear. This article contributes to identifying pathways by p...

Steve speaks with Andy about his research on colo(u)r. Abstract Tourist experiences are the product of a temporally extended series of events and activities. The temporal distance from actual experiences distorts the recalled evaluation of their experiences so tourists photograph to record their experiences and consume the place. Tourist photographs build a positive image of a destination when the...

Jamie speaks with Phoebe about her recent research. Abstract Promotion of volunteer tourism is couched within notions of ‘giving back’, drawing on affective sentiments of ‘care’, ‘compassion’ and ‘empathy’, reinforced by neo-colonial and neoliberal notions of developmental aid. It is not surprising then, that scholars are turning to theories of affect to make sense of the embodied, emotional aspec...

Guillaume Tiberghien discusses his work on gulag tourism in Kazakhstan. Abstract To date, there has been limited research concerning the methodology and approach to Gulag heritage and how it has been memorialised and commodified for tourism purposes. The recent cultural commodification of the Soviet past and the development of participatory visitor experiences at Gulag museums in Kazakhstan necess...

Joseph speaks with Linus about his recent research. Abstract High hopes are pinned on tourism and its catalytic potential to foster growth in remote rural areas. In the Zambezi region of northeastern Namibia, tourism plays a key role in the design of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes for nature conservation. Local communities form conservancies, small village-based ent...

Jaeyeon Choe speaks with Kathleen Adams about her recent reesearch. Abstract Classic Anglo-European definitions of tourism as recreational travel have hindered more nuanced locally-grounded understandings of travel phenomena elsewhere in the world. Moreover, contemporary global labor and educational mobility have produced novel travel forms and behaviors that straddle the Western categories of “to...

Joseph interviews Kiran Shinde about his recent research. Abstract Religious tourism refers to contemporary patterns of travel to sacred places and has taken many forms owing to different motivations of visitors. Researchers have discussed motivation, activities, and behaviour of visitors in framing what constitutes religious in religious tourism, but little attention is given to spatial manifesta...

In this episode, Rosa Codina talks about her research published in Tourism Geographies emanating from her PhD. Codina, R., Lugosi, P., and Bowen, D. (2022). 'Place, power, and tourism in value-creation: contesting the plaza in Pisac, Peru',  Tourism Geographies , 24(4-5):pp. 879-901. Abstract Place, power, and tourism intersect as disparate actors attempt to create and extract different forms...

Joseph Cheers speaks with Ethan Bottone about his research inot the Green Book. Abstract Tourist homes, private residences that rented rooms to traveling guests, were once a popular form of tourist accommodation in the United States. Reaching their peak in the early 20th century, tourist homes largely became obsolete as hotels and motels were able to provide relatively inexpensive and standardized...

Stephen Pratt interviews Dawn Gibson about their research in Samoa. ABSTRACT Tourism is a global phenomenon yet non-Western travel and tourism mobilities are under-researched and lack theoretical development. In the South Pacific, a region which is increasingly receiving geopolitical attention, there is substantial knowledge of inbound tourism but outbound and domestic forms of travel are less kno...

In  Invited to Witness , Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism across Occupied Palestine. Examining the relationships among race, colonialism, and movement-building in spaces where tourism and military occupation operate in tandem, Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as both political strategy and emergent industry. She draws...

Jaeyeon Choe speaks with Daniel Olsen about his research Ce Qu, Chaozhi Zhang, Shiwei Shen & Daniel H. Olsen (2022) Heritage conservation and communities’ sense of deprivation in tourism: the case of the Hani community in Yunnan, China, Tourism Geographies, DOI:  10.1080/14616688.2021.2016936 Abstract Communities play a critical role in the development and maintenance...

Jamie Gillen interviews Niamh Espiner about her research on camping in New Zealand. You can reference it here: Niamh Espiner, Emma J. Stewart, Helen Fitt, Shannon Page & Stephen Espiner (2021) From tents and maps to vans and apps: Exploring camping mobilities, Tourism Geographies, DOI:  10.1080/14616688.2021.1964588 Abstract Mobile camping in a tent or vehicle is an in...

Stephen Pratt interviews Denis Tolkach about their paper: Globalisation and cultural change in Pacific Island countries: the role of tourism Which can be found here: Denis Tolkach & Stephen Pratt (2021) Globalisation and cultural change in Pacific Island countries: the role of tourism, Tourism Geographies, 23:3, 371-396, DOI:  10.1080/14616688.2019.1625071 Ab...

Jamie Gillen speaks to Julia Giddy about her recent research on uber in South Africa. You can read all about it here: Julia K. Giddy (2021) Uber and employment in the Global South – not-so-decent work, Tourism Geographies, DOI:  10.1080/14616688.2021.1931955 Abstract Due to its global standards and brand recognition, Uber has become an important form of transportation and...

In this episode, Jamie Gillen interviews Jaeyeon Choe about her publication: Migration, tourism and social sustainability The full article can be found here: Choe, J., & Lugosi, P. (2022). Migration, tourism and social sustainability . Tourism Geographies , 24 (1), 1-8. Abstract In practice, the distinctions between tourism and migration are blurred. Tourism often drives various forms of mobil...

Joseph Cheer interview Revati Pandya about her recent research. Revati’s research and practice are in resource governance and community dynamics in India. Since 2011 she has worked in natural resource and protected area contexts, examining questions of local engagement with resources, forest rights, conservation governance and markets. Her work is grounded in understanding contexts, identities, po...

Mary Mostafanezhad speaks to Heike Schänzel about Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies. You can read the full article here: Schänzel, H. A., & Porter, B. A. (2022). Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies . Tourism Geographies , 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2022.2077426 Abstract Sexual violence a...

In this episode, Jaeyeon Choe interviews Tom Jones about his recent published paper on zoning in World Heritage Site. The full paper can be found here: Jones, T. E., Bui, H. T., & Ando, K. (2022). Zoning for world heritage sites: dual dilemmas in development and demographics.  Tourism Geographies ,  24 (1), 33-55.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2020.1780631 Abstract Since lis...

In this episode, Joseph Chee r interviews Eva Erdmenger about her recent publication on participatory destination governance. Eva C. Erdmenger (PhD) is currently working as a research associate at the University of Trier (Germany) where she also started her academic career in Applied Human Geography with a focus on tourism geography. Afterwards, she completed her Master’s degree in Tourism De...

Joseph Cheer speaks to Loretta Bellato about her recent paper: Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice The full paper can be read here: Loretta Bellato, Niki Frantzeskaki & Christian A. Nygaard (2022) Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice, Tourism Geographies, DOI:  10.1080/14616688.2022.2044376...

In this episode, the editors and members of the editorial board discuss the tips and tricks of how to get published in Tourism Geographies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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