ABSTRACT
A decade ago, David Fennell concluded his article on tourists’ spatial behavior in the Shetland Islands with the following note: In the future, he refl ected, information about the behavior of tourists in time and space would be best “accomplished by adopting and modifying the ‘radiotelemetry’ technology used for many years in the natural sciences . . . for the purpose of tracking specifi c animal species in parks and protected area environments” (1996, 827-828). While exploring the behavior of tourists in time and space, Fennell, like others before him, encountered a range of problems; his observation about the best possible method for researching the subject was a result of the challenges he faced.
