A Geographer’s Gaze at Tourism

A Geographer’s Gaze at Tourism

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The meaning and content of international tourism has shifted from Greek and Roman travel to a modern and complex phenomenon in the 21st century.All along this time path the scientific interest in tourism has changed from a descriptive and encyclopaedic knowledge of places and people to a discipline in Bag its own right.The emerging geographical approach to tourism emphasises both the spatial analysis of tourism -including flows and space uses- and a synthesis of the territorial coherence among people, place, product and policies.The geographical approach, with its capacity to analyse the various components and to synthesise the interactions, BOSCH Serie 4 KIR81VSF0G Integrated Tall Fridge contributes to the formation of a comprehensive and coherent framework for an integrated analysis of the multi-dimensional tourism environment.

Over time the research focus has come to concentrate upon the transformation processes induced by tourism and on the multi-dimensional impact of tourism on natural and morphological characteristics, on social and political relationships, on economic structures and on functional profiles.Reflections on key issues for future research in tourism include a «return to the roots movement» in the territorial approach, the high expectations of methodological innovations and emphasis on the need for integrated planning and management in tourism.