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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice
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🚩 Social Media Editor needed for Tourism Geographies.

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🔺 Application deadline, 6 January 2026.
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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🎙️ 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".
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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💥 What's new in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES?
➡️ See a select bunch of papers fresh off the production line.

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October 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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📷 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...
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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🚩 What's new in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES?

➡️ Check out this recently published cutting-edge research!

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September 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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🎙️ 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.
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🚩 What's new in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES?

📈 EVALUATING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TOURISM IN GERMANY’S BIOSPHERE RESERVES
September 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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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....
Evaluating the economic impact of tourism in Germany’s Biosphere Reserves
Biosphere Reserves, as designated by UNESCO, serve as models for sustainable development, fostering balanced interactions between humans and nature. In this framework, tourism plays a vital role, s...
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September 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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🎉 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".
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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🌳 Ancestral tourism may be the best route for community-based tourism, which works to empower communities to take charge of telling their own stories.
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Ancestral tourism: Where Indigenous and Afro-Brazilians can tell their own stories
Traditional communities in southern Rio de Janeiro and northern São Paulo are organizing to offer visits that focus on local culture and steer clear of mass tourism
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August 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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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 new tourist fines sweeping Europe
From no flip-flops behind the wheel to no swimwear beyond the beach, fresh rules and restrictions signal a new era for mass tourism in Europe.
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August 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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✅ 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.
August 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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📢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
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Agency and coevolutionary path development in tourism destinations
Drawing on recent debates in Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG), this study relies on path development and coevolution theories to gain deep understanding of tourism destination trajectories ove...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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🚩 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
July 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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🚩 New research just out in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES

✈️ MOBILE RESEARCH PRACTICES: OPEN-ENDED TRAVEL AS METHODOLOGICAL INTERVENTION

🗣️ By Chris Gibson, University of Sydney, Australia
July 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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On the vexing nature of digital nomads and their integration into the local community (or not).
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
'There's an arrogance to the way they move around the city': is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
Like so many others, I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break. But as tensions rise with struggling locals, many of us are beginning to wonder whether we’re...
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July 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🚩 A Call for Papers

🌏 Special Issue in Tourism Geographies

🧭 Geographies of Personalisation and Immersion in Tourism Experiencescapes

🔗 See full details: www.tgjournal.com/personalisat...
July 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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🔥 SAVE THE DATE
🌏 Atlas Critical Tourism Studies-Asia Pacific is pleased to announce that its In-Between Regional Conference will be hosted by Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto on 9-10 March, 2026.
July 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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New research in Tourism Geographies.
🚀 SPACE TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE TRAJECTORY

HIGHLIGHTS
🛰️ Achieving the benefits available in space while avoiding or minimising the numerous possible negative consequences requires evaluating the economic and regulatory systems.
July 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The displacement of locals as a result of tourism growth is often cited as one of the best indicators that tourism tipping points have been exceeded. It is accentuated when the purchasing power of tourists far exceeds that of locals.

www.reuters.com/world/spania...
Spaniards struggle to enjoy their own beaches in tourist deluge
International holidaymakers are keeping Spaniards off their own sun-kissed beaches due to ever-rising hotel and rental prices during an unprecedented tourism boom.
www.reuters.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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🏝️”On Tenerife, where tourism accounts for 35% of the economy and which draws the largest number of mostly British holidaymakers, it is tourists, not immigrants, who are seen as a threat to local identity.
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13 minutes of reportage on the adverse impacts of tourism.
‘Tourists go home’: Inside the angry protests on Spain’s holiday islands – video
In scenes echoed across southern Europe, Spain’s Canary Islands are suffering from a crisis of too many tourists – 18 million are projected to visit in 2025. On Tenerife, where tourism accounts for 35...
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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🚩 Just out in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES

✅ BEYOND THE DICHOTOMY: Revisiting endogenous-exogenous dynamics and place-based leadership in second-home development.
July 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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🚩 New Research in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES.
🌳 KEY QUESTION:
How can engagement and entrepreneurship in rural tourism be enabled?

With thanks to Handling Editor, Dimitri Ioannides for helping shape this work.
July 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Interested in dark tourism?
If so, check out this collection in Tourism Geographies curated by Nitasha Sharma and Anna Martini

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rtx...
Dark Tourism Geographies
Explore the article collection: Dark Tourism Geographies. Published in Tourism Geographies.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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ON THE VERGE: THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES
Volume 27, Issue 3 & 4, 2025
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtxg20/2...?
30 of the 41 articles in this Issue are OPEN ACCESS
June 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM