Tourism geopolitics: roots and branches

2024/03/22 by Jamie Gillen · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research #Religious Tourism and Spaces #Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/14616688.2024.2332354

openalex publication_date 2024/03/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/18

Abstract

This paper critically reviews tourism geopolitics’ lifespan with a focus on both recent developments and its longer history. Contemporary times show increased attention paid by geographers to tourism geopolitics. This work follows more intensive global cross-border leisure travel underpinned by strong expressions of nationhood. The everyday geopolitical dimensions of tourism reverberate across scales and inform diplomacy, international relations, border controls, and shifting regional alliances. Yet there is a longer intellectual history to tourism geopolitics. This review attends to a few of the concept’s origins in tourism geography.

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