ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the possibilities for further leisure and tourism geographies and geographies of leisure and tourism. It focuses on the social and cultural geographies within an overarching chronology of geographical theories that have engaged with leisure and tourism landscapes. The book illustrates the ways in which the views of these landscapes have changed over time and have been shaped by developments in travel, transport and communications. It demonstrates that the relationships between history and heritage and between past and present are blurred by the sites and processes of leisure and tourism. The book offers an analysis of the ways in which space, place and landscape can be transformed over time to accommodate different social, cultural, economic and political priorities. Poststructural theory, with its emphasis on the interrelation of structure and culture, and the material and the symbolic, remains central to this discursive development.
