Abstract
While there is extensive literature on the evolution of tourism and the urbanization process, the interlinks between these two evolutions are not yet fully explored; maybe because they are separate disciplines, or taught independently of each other. This research navigates the spatial dimension of travel evolution alongside the attendant expansion of the urbanization process. It defines the nexus between tourism as a global demand and the physical infrastructure that accommodates such a force. The built environment, manifested in both its urban forms and its systems of mobility, is shaped by, and has been shaping, many factors including tourism. Using comparative narratives that describes tourist curiosity, the tourism routs and the tourism destinations across time, this work further explores the historical relationship between urbanization and tourism by emphasizing how the evolution of each has influenced the other. Itanalyzes different eras and identifies how the tourist, the travel mode and the destination have influenced each other through time. Considered one of the world's oldest tourist destinations, Egypt is used here to demonstrate the interlocking relationship of tourism and urbanization. The research concludes that appreciating these two phenomena in isolation proves challenging insofar as the evolution of tourism through time can not only be attributed to the tourism demand but also to the shape and form of the destination and the mobile systems available in each era and locale.
Highlights
Background the urbanization process has been well documented throughout history and the evolution of travel has been studied with equal thoroughness, the connection between those two phenomena remains http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/se
Governments and policy makers need to appreciate the relationship between these pillars of tourism and urbanization, which should influence and inform their daily practices and decisions when managing urban development, city planning, and areas designated for tourism development
This research revealed that the intersection of both tourism and urbanization process is phenomenal
Summary
Vol 6, No 3, 2021 significantly understudied This is primarily because many scholars study tourism through various specialized optics: anthropological, social, cultural, economic, business, and hospitality (see Figure 1). Such an approach to tourism tends to ignore the actual connections between these approaches. Leading universities and research bodies have siloed tourism within departments and schools such as anthropology, cultural geography, forestry, business, hospitality and recreation. Few of these collaborate or share the common platforms that are needed to better understand the relationship between tourism and the built environment, while tourism’s real-world, real-time scope dictates widening the aperture. The evolution of tourism has happened alongside the evolution of the built environment; the history of urbanization, in particular, is an essential aspect of an interdisciplinary approach to tourism
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