ABSTRACT
The relationship between the environment and many forms of tourism is fundamental. From the earliest times, the enjoyment of ‘environments’— whether defined in physical or in socio-cultural terms-has had a major impact in shaping a succession of tourism geographies. As public tastes for different kinds of leisure environment have developed through timefor example, through the formation of resorts or the changing preferences for scenic landscapes in the nineteenth century; or the quest for amenable climates or the attraction of historic heritage in the twentieth century-so new spatial patterns of interaction between people and environments have been formed.
