Tourism Geography Research Articles

Различные подходы к изучению географии туристских потоков (на примере стран Бенилюкса)

The tourism geography currently uses a variety of approaches to analyze tourist flows. The purpose of the study is to identify geographical features in the distribution of inbound tourist flows in the Benelux countries, using various approaches to data aggregation and visualization. The study is based on the national tourism statistics of the Benelux countries. Five leading countries in terms of the volume of inbound tourist flow in this region are considered: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium. Four different indicators were used to analyze the distribution of inbound tourist flow: the total number of arrivals of foreign and domestic tourists in the region, inbound tourist flow diversity index, the share of arrivals from a particular country in the total volume of inbound tourist flow, and the degree of attendance calculated on the basis of the share of the country’s tourist the total tourist flow of the country. The regions that are the main centers of tourism (capital, seaside, border) and geographic factors that affect the degree of attendance of the region by tourists from different countries are identified: the language of the region, distance from the border, the capital factor and, in some cases, the presence of direct flights. The use of two different approaches to assessing the inbound tourist flow, carried out for the first time, made it possible to determine their advantages and disadvantages for further use.

ГЕОТУРИЗМ В КОНЦЕПЦИЯХ НАСЛЕДИЯ И ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ18

The starting point for this study is the negative consequences of the ever-increasing availability of leisure time. For the first time in human history, time spent on leisure takes precedence over labor. The study aims to demonstrate the possibilities of involving people in science tourism as the most useful type of recreation. Citizen science, developing on the basis of the Internet and tourism, and the nature’s beauty, which is one of the most important resources of the geographical environment, form the basis of tourism geography.It is defined as the science of educational, health-improving, and value-aesthetic (axiological) resources of the geographicalenvironment. We consider the relationships of this science with physical and economic geography. The study also defines the concept of geotourism, the methodology of which is based on tourism geography. We distinguish between eco-tourism and geo-tourism, both considered as part of science tourism. The role of geological aesthetics is explored among the key objects of geotourism. Geotourism is seen as one of the most areas for the development of tourist-recreational services. Russia’s geological sites are argued to have a significant untapped potential and could boost the network of geoparks (which is being created after the UNESCO Global Geoparks). We further define the significance of beautiful sceneries in the studies of local history, health services, and geo-tourism. Overall, the present study is one of the first attempts to explore geotourism systematically, as one of the tools for the integration of Earth sciences with society. The study could be used for the establishment of the theory of geo-heritage and for the training of students in geology, geography, geomorphology, landscape and tourism studies.

A Study on the Implementation Path of the “Chinese Tourism Geography” Classroom Revolution in Chinese Higher Vocational Colleges Based on the CBE Concept

A Study on the Implementation Path of the “Chinese Tourism Geography” Classroom Revolution in Chinese Higher Vocational Colleges Based on the CBE Concept

Research on Sanmen Island Research and Education Path Based on the Perspective of Tourism Geography Sentiment Evaluation

Research on Sanmen Island Research and Education Path Based on the Perspective of Tourism Geography Sentiment Evaluation

Application of GIS technologies for improving the content of the tourist map of Fergana province, Uzbekistan

This article contains proposals and recommendations for the creation and future development of interactive-dynamic maps of the Fergana province of the Republic of Uzbekistan through ArcGIS online software and cloud technologies. The experience of tourism geography and cartography, as well as the methodology of creating tourist maps, for creating interactive-dynamic maps, are explained. Selection of software tools for creating an interactive-dynamic tourist map using modern geographic information systems, mapping, creation of digital cartographic bases, and vectorization of the Raster MAR image with the help of manual placement of the map is shown through the MapInfo map system. A 1:750000 scale tourist map of the province was created based on the scientific results obtained on the economic and geographical features of tourism development in Fergana province. On the basis of the map, the possibility of determining the specialization of tourist regions in Fergana province and effectively using the potential of the regions has been revealed. Also, the system of marking objects displayed in the technology of creating maps, which is closely related to their content, and the principle of consistency have been preserved.

The identification of cultural tourism geographies: Results from a Systematic Literature Review

Tourism development allows the enhancement of the heritage of local cultural resources , expressing the territorial potential. The Systematic Literature Review shown in this paper highlight the relationship between "cultural heritage" and "tourism". The current state of the art and the specific relationships between the contents of the selected publications demonstrate that tourism is an indispensable tool in local communication and cultural promotion policies and strategies. The qualitative results allow the identification of cultural tourism geographies that coincide with four thematic clusters not evident in advance.

Development of Visual Interactive Learning Media Model Based on Documentary Film Themes of Regional Tourism Potential in Tourism Geography Learning

The tourism geography course is an elective course presented in semester 5 for students of the Geography Study Program at the Lambung Mangkurat University Banjarmasin, this course presents content-based contextual material. The content of the material about the natural potential and cultural potential of an area in the tourism geography course will be more concrete and easier to understand if the material is delivered with the help of documentary films with the theme of regional tourism potential. The aims of this research are to (1) design documentary film media to be used as a support for learning tourism geography courses for regional tourism potential; (2) know the feasibility of documentary film media to be used as a support for learning tourism geography courses for regional tourism potential; and (3) know student learning outcomes and student responses to documentary film media used as a support for learning tourism geography courses for regional tourism potential. The technique collection of the data is divided into two stages: (1) Pre Production, and (2) Production. An increase in the value of mastery of the material from the pretest score of 26.92% of students increased to 92.51% of the posttest value. Student responses to documentary films as audiovisual interactive media are considered good. As can be seen from the response indicator value, the average response value is more than 80%. The use of documentary film media for regional tourism potential is generally favored by students.

EFFECTIVENESS OF LEARNING OUTCOMES OF TOURISM GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK FOR STUDENT IN GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the resulting textbook development subject Tourism Geography. Development textbook using the Borg and Gall model with five steps. The steps are (1) initial study to find problems related to geography teaching materials tourism as a product to be developed. (2) create planning development teaching materials, (3) develop products based on the problems found, ( 4 ) conduct field tests on the products being developed, and ( 5 ) revise to correct weaknesses in the field trial phase. The data were obtained from the teaching material validation team, which included material experts, linguists, and learning design experts. The validation results from the expert team showed the textbooks of tourism geography obtain values 92, 4, or category very suitable for learning. While data from the results study class of 2019 programming students subject tourism geography show effective results with an average value of 84.56 or category A-. Keywords: effectiveness, textbooks, geography tourism, learning.

FROM TOURISM GEOGRAPHY PERSPECTIVE SALDA LAKE (TURKEY) AND NEAR SURROUNDING

Salda Lake, located within the borders of Yeşilova district of Burdur province in the Antalya Section of the Mediterranean Region, is one of Turkey's most popular tourist attractions. Located in the southwest of Turkey and encompassing many lake basins, the “Lakes Region” has been designated as the “Lakes Region Ecotourism Development Region” in the Turkey 2023 tourism strategy and attention has been drawn to the tourism potential of the lakes in the region. Located in the Lakes Region, Lake Salda draws attention with its natural beaches and water sports opportunities, rich flora and fauna, recreation areas and camping areas by the lake, various accommodation opportunities and natural beauties, healing lake waters and rich tourism diversity. Rural tourism, lake tourism, ecological tourism, winter tourism, botanical tourism, health tourism and cultural tourism are the most developed types of tourism in and around Salda Lake. In this research, the geographical location, tourism potential and main tourism resources of both Yeşilova district and Salda Lake were examined. In addition, in this article focused on tourism geography, the negative ecological and socio-economic effects of increasing human pressure and tourism activities around Salda Lake were investigated. In this study, which deals with the examination of Salda Lake and its surroundings in terms of recreation and tourism activities, the natural and human environmental factors of the region are analyzed, and the main tourism advantages and disadvantages of the region are discussed. At the beginning of the most important results obtained from this research, it has been determined that factors such as climate change, uncontrolled and intense touristic flow, increasing environmental pollution and illegal construction threaten sustainable tourism in the Salda Lake basin.

Development of Virtual Tourism-Based Interactive Multimedia in Tourism Geography Learning

The objectives of this study included (1) Designing products in the form of interactive multimedia based on virtual tourism; (2) Analyzing the theoretical feasibility test of experts in the development of interactive multimedia based on virtual tourism; (3) Analyzing the empirical feasibility test of interactive multimedia based on virtual tourism. The present study employed a Research and Development design. The data analysis techniques were qualitative and quantitative descriptives. The findings revealed that (1) The design of interactive multimedia based on virtual tourism in the Tourism Geography course consisted the pages of login, introduction, main menu, module instructions, materials, and info; (2) Virtual tourism-based interactive multimedia developed was declared highly feasible by media experts and practitioners, and it was considered worthy of development by material experts; (3) Virtual tourism-based interactive multimedia, according to students, was very suitable for use in learning activities. The implications of this research emphasized subsequent researchers' need to develop materials displayed in a much better interactive multimedia based on virtual tourism. Keywords: Interactive Multimedia as Learning Media, Virtual Tourism, Learning Media Development

PROBLEMS AND DIRECTIONS OF THE STATE POLICY OF TOURISM AND RECREATION DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE: GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS

The purpose of the article is the identification of problematic aspects, as well as the determination of promising directions of the state policy for the development of tourism and recreation in Ukraine, considering geographical aspects. During the research, such scientific methods of research as quantitative and qualitative comparison were used (to provide a description of the state policy of the tourism and recreation development in Ukraine); statistical analysis (for the analysis of the state and dynamics, geographical orientation of the development of tourist activity; system-structural analysis (for substantiating the priorities and tools of the state policy of stimulating tourism and recreation development in Ukraine). The indicators of the number of subjects of tourist and recreational activities in Ukraine, the distribution of outbound tourists by the countries to which they went, and inbound (foreign) tourists by the countries from which they arrived in Ukraine, the structure of outbound tourists of Ukraine by country, as well as the functioning of children's health and recreation facilities by region of Ukraine are represented. The directions and tools of the state policy for the development of tourism and recreation in Ukraine are substantiated. It has been established that the priority areas of tourism development in the regions of Ukraine should be the improvement of the effectiveness of image management, the implementation of marketing approaches, the formation of tourist flows based on logistics, the development and effective use of local intellectual and personnel resources. In terms of the development of the recreation sector of Ukraine, the leading vectors should be defined as improvement of the institutional foundations of relations regulation in this sphere; achieving high financial and economic activity of business entities in the recreation sphere, stimulating the increase of internal and external investments in the modernization and restoration of recreation facilities, support from the state and society for the creation of new jobs; development of inbound and domestic tourism, rural (green), ecological tourism; expansion of cooperation practices and international cooperation. The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the further development of the scientific toolkit for stimulating the activation of tourism and recreation. The practical significance of the obtained results lies in the possibility of differentiation of state policy in the regional aspect. Prospects for further research in this area relate to the substantiation of the priorities and means of the state policy of supporting tourism and recreation subjects in Ukraine in the conditions of war. Keywords: tourism and recreation, geography of tourism, regional features, state development policy, hospitality industry.

The role of legitimation and delegitimation in new path development in tourism

The development of the tourism industry in regional contexts has attracted significant interest from tourism geographers, in which the evolutionary economic geography (EEG) approach has been of interest over the last decade. Recent research on EEG has emphasised the role of institutions and particularly legitimacy in new path development, claiming that legitimacy is crucial for the development of emerging industries. Against this backdrop, this paper explores the role of legitimation and delegitimation in the development of the sharing economy in Innlandet, a tourism region in Norway. The article poses two research questions. How is the legitimacy of Airbnb expressed by key tourism stakeholders in a tourism region in Norway? Moreover, how can the shifting roles of legitimation and delegitimation among key stakeholders in the tourism industry inform the literature on new path development? These issues are explored in qualitative interviews with respondents from four key tourism stakeholder groups: consumers, Airbnb hosts, incumbent firms, and regional industry and policy actors. The findings reveal legitimacy issues mainly related to regulatory and normative ambiguities, described by biased regulations that result in economic leakages to other regions and countries and concerns about decreasing local value creation in the region. These findings indicate that the sharing economy lacks legitimacy among the stakeholders. The article concerns the role of legitimation and delegitimation in new path development processes, arguing that delegitimation prevents transformative changes and path development processes.

Nature-based tourism as therapeutic landscape in a COVID era: autoethnographic learnings from a visitor’s experience in Iceland

One of the few silver linings in the COVID pandemic has been a new appreciation for, interest in, and engagement with nature. As countries open, and travel becomes accessible again, there is an opportunity to reimagine sustainable nature-based tourism from a therapeutic landscape lens. Framed within the therapeutic landscape concept, this paper provides an autoethnographic account of a visitor’s experience of three different natural landscapes in Iceland shortly after the country’s fourth wave of the pandemic. It adds to the understanding of the healing effects of the multi-colored natural landscapes of Iceland. The natural landscapes of interest herein include: the southern part of the Westfjörd peninsula, Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon, and the Central Highlands. In totality, the natural, built and symbolic environments worked in synchronicity to produce three thematic results: restoration, awe and concern, all which provided reduced stress, renewed attention, as well as enhanced physical and psycho-social benefits for the autoethnographic visiting researcher. Implications of these restorative outcomes for sustainable nature-based tourism in a post-COVID era are discussed. This paper highlights how health and tourism geographers can work collaboratively to recognize, protect, and sustain the therapeutic elements of natural landscapes, recognized as a cultural ecosystem service. In so doing, such collaborations can positively influence sustainable nature-based tourism development and consumption through proper and appropriate planning and development of such tourism destinations.

Service-learning during the pandemic through a tourism geography course

ABSTRACT This case study illustrates the challenges and strategies adopted by the instructor and the Tour Dure producer in designing a tourism geography service-learning course during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on a teaching experience in a course titled “Tourism Place Management Project” which involved collaboration with Tour Dure businesses in Goesan County of South Korea. In so doing, the initial course objectives and the activities based on the experiential learning theory adopted for the course are illustrated. Then challenges and the adjusted measures to cope with the pandemic are explained. The main challenges were caused by limited opportunities for offline activities including fieldwork and the students’ group meetings. Strategies adopted to cope with the challenges included providing small-group sessions for the students, including the fieldwork and online sessions with the instructor and the Tour Dure producer. Also, the instructor, the Tour Dure producer, the businesses, and the students were encouraged to share diverse materials among themselves. As a result, the students acknowledged the importance of the service-learning experience despite the limitations caused by the pandemic. This case study provides implications on how service-learning can be conducted when offline learning experiences are limited.

UKRAINE'S POTENTIAL FOR ACTIVE TOURISM – AN ATTEMPT AT ANALYSIS

The paper discusses methodological and spatial features of an important segment of the recreational and tourist activities - active sport tourism - in terms of geospatial approach (on the example of Ukraine). Geospatial approach is considered by the author as the most appropriate methodological approach to the study of active sport tourism geography, as active sport tourism resources are represented, first of all, by the territory and some of located objects, primarily natural and infrastructure facilities. These objects play a dual role in sports tourism. Second, these are attractive objects which tourists want to see: beautiful peaks, glaciers, icefalls, lakes, waterfalls etc. These individual sports tourism objects are “thread” on the lines of sports tourism routes that may be considered as the linear forms of sports tourism activity. Each category of route difficulty corresponds to a certain set of local and extensive obstacles by type, number and category of difficulty. The network of sports tourism routes with extremely attractive objects constitutes sports tourism region. Every active sport tourism region has own specialization in one or more types of sports tourism. If active sport tourism region is considered only as recipient of tourist flows, it acts as the active sport tourism region-destination. Regionalization of Ukraine in terms of certain taxonomic levels (zone - region (region-destination) - hub - object) is an important result of human-geographical study of active sport tourism in Ukraine. Seven active sport tourism zones have been identified in Ukraine based on the defined criteria. Each zone contains from 2 to 4 active sport tourism regions. Empirical studies have been conducted in the Carpathian mountainous active sport tourism region (research tourist groups).

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tourism geographies of Bangladesh: study on Sylhet region.

This qualitative study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism geographies of Sylhet region in Bangladesh developing analytical linkages between pandemic and tourism geography. On the basis of in-depth interviews, the study explores micro effects on diverse actors involved in the tourism process of Sylhet division. As one of the emerging tourism hubs, why Sylhet region demands special treatment from local, national and international authorities and policymakers to mitigate the adverse effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, has been investigated in this paper. However, the central argument of the study is that the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the demand and supply chains, local businesses, transportations, hotels and restaurants, tea industry, corporations, and local professional lives due to the imposed restrictions on human mobility, causing a sharp decline in socio-economic activities of Sylhet’s tourism geographies.

Heritage Preservation and Conservation for Sustainable Development: A Study in Tourism Geography

Heritage Preservation and Conservation for Sustainable Development: A Study in Tourism Geography

Reconciling essential and socially constructed selves: Han Chinese travelling to Tibet and the making of assemblage self

In post‐reform China, Han Chinese urbanities traveling to Tibet have contributed to a new literary genre that documents tourist mobility as a means of self‐finding and self‐exploration. The sample of data in this study consists of 28 book‐length travel writings by Han travellers, and the primary research question addresses the relationships between tourism mobility and self‐making, a widely debated issue in cultural and tourism geographies. Engaging with the conceptual tension between an essential self and a socially constructed self, this study argues that while Han writers' travels to Tibet are germane to the hunt for an essential self as a hidden treasure to be redeemed, the self is by no means merely introspective, but intrinsically relational and constituted by social, embodied and materially mediated practices. For the purpose of reconciling and synthesizing the two theoretical positions, this study proposes an alternative concept known as the ‘assemblage self’, which tries to capture how the more‐than‐human and more‐than‐representational dimensions of mobilities can speak back powerfully to the phenomenology of the self. This concept is relational and performative in the sense that it is constituted by networks of discourses, practices, and materialities. We develop this concept by engaging with the recent literature on more‐than‐representational mobility as a conceptual nexus connecting the concepts of the essential self and the socially constructed self.

Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies

Sexual violence and harassment in field research is an uncomfortable and under-discussed phenomenon in the social sciences. Tourism geographies, being cross-cultural, often require solo fieldwork that exposes one’s gender in geographically remote locations. There is a pressing need to normalise the discussion of sexual politics in the field, specifically concerning occurrences of gender-associated risks in fieldwork and report on the unexpected physical and mental health risks for women researchers. This study takes a feminist theoretical lens to unpack the hidden dimensions of women engaged in ‘voluntary’ risk taking by conducting field research in male-dominated research environments. Taking an exploratory approach within an interpretivist paradigm, this study is based on the fieldwork experiences of 13 women from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds with the participants sharing their subjective realities of researching in tourism geographies. A thematic analysis revealed the two key themes of risk/perceived vulnerabilities and wellbeing/care in the field as paramount for field research spaces for women, along with 11 subthemes. Findings reaffirmed the political nature of tourism geographies fieldwork and the need to challenge sexual politics and patriarchal domination, including for LGBTQ researchers. Further, the results highlighted the intersectionality of race and gender of women’s experiences of sexual violence and other risks in the field. Thus, the findings suggest an urgent need to provide an imperative for fieldworker safety, wellbeing considerations, and alternative ways of researching.

Evaluation of the green development level of tourism in ecological conservation areas: A case study of Beijing

AbstractThe excessive speed of development for tourism seriously restricts the sustainable development of ecological conservation areas (ECAs). In this study, we take Beijing's ecological conservation area (BECA) as the study area, and construct the model of the green development level of tourism (GDLT) in ECAs to measure and analyze the spatial–temporal evolution and factors influencing of GDLT in BECA. Our results demonstrate that the GDLT in BECA continued to rise from 2011 to 2017, but the spatial distribution was unbalanced. The main factors influencing GDLT in BECA have been the endowment level of green tourism resources and the construction level of the regional ecological civilization. The new method to measure GDLT in ECAs presented here can provide reference for the green development of tourism in ECAs. The findings can construct the theory of the green development of tourism in ECAs, and enrich the theory of tourism geography and tourism ecology from the perspective of the green development concept.