Tourism Geographies Podcast
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2525815Abstract 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 limited ability to sustai
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 flexible and highly mobile ca
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2516837Abstract 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. The reason is that the p
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 accessible, while the digital rev
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-laAbstract 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 their homeland. This is i
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 and the work of Derrid