ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 2002: This volume follows on from the tradition of humanistic geography to examine tourism from an experiential perspective - examining the experience of the tourists themsleves. By analyzing theories on tourism from anthropology, psychology and culural tourism, it aims to further the geographical debates on interactions which occur in tourism. The text offers a geographical approach which examines how the resulting experience of tourism can reveal something of our relationship with places in general, and also about ourselves.

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|34 pages

Humanistic Geography Revisited

chapter 3|11 pages

Travel Research and Humanistic Geography

chapter 4|20 pages

Qualitative Traditions in Travel Research

chapter 5|10 pages

Charting Shared Experiences

chapter 6|31 pages

Travel as Reach

chapter 7|56 pages

Tourist Discourse and Tourist Space

chapter 8|25 pages

Sightseeing

chapter 9|41 pages

The Encounter With the Other Culture