ABSTRACT
This chapter explains broad approach to understanding the phenomenon of tourism in place. Examination of tourism in this way is fruitful because it allows for adequate complexity in studying the relationship between identity and landscape, the relationship between tourism and landscape, and the way in which these intersect with meaning. In searching for binding framework for the range of societies in this chapter, it is offered that the application of landscape perspectives can help better understand social and cultural processes of tourism through which meaning is derived. It also avoids other tendency in tourism studies of casting aspersion upon "ugly tourist" who passively and ignorantly consumes sites, because landscapes have meaning, and because they are open to interpretation by outsiders. People recognize that joining landscape theory with tourism theory is just one of many methods that may be used to glean greater understanding, but we have found it offers an analytical framework that has potential in other settings.
