Practicing Tourist Landscapes

Thinking about the relationship between tourism and landscapes has become more important in terms of investigations of the production of tourist places and spaces (Aitchison et al. 2000; Cartier and Lew 2005; Minca and Oakes 2006; Minca 2007; Knudsen et al. 2008). In particular, some scholars have paid attention to the multivocality of tourist landscapes, which may derive from involvement with several social actors in the practices of tourism. As Cartier states:

Touristed landscapes, and as places, represent an array of experiences and goals acted out by diverse people in locales that are subject to tourism but which are also places of historic and integral meaning, where “leisure/tourism” economies are also local economies, and where people are engaged in diverse aspects of daily life.