ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the potential implications of the conceptualisations, knowledges and understandings of space produced throughout the book. The chapter argues for more open, flexible and nuanced approaches to conceptualising spatiality, those which take into account the multiplicities which constitute resort assemblages and their lived spaces. Rather than trying to regulate and control the messiness of urban spaces or trying to impose coherence on them through overly simplified assessments (e.g. resorts as depthless, hyperreal, homogenous), we must work productively with complexity and disorder. These understandings and approaches are useful not only in the scholarly realm, but also for urban planners, policy makers, local governments and other bodies involved in tourism development. Thus, the objective of this chapter is to suggest possibilities for how the research may be extrapolated and operationalised in diverse international and institutional contexts.
