ABSTRACT
The relationship between tourism and geography is a strong one. Tourism entails the movement of people to a locale that is different from their normal environs. However, because it encompasses such a wide range of activities, from sunning and shopping to museum and nature exploring, the common denominator of temporary relocation in space is critical to separating out tourist activity from simple day-tripping. Movement is a fundamentally geographic concept. While geographers were instrumental in early tourism theories concerning the patterns of tourist movements worldwide, today geographers are approaching other frontiers in tourism studies, particularly in terms of tourist experiences.
