Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

Description

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter that exists between people, people and space, people as socialised and embodied subjects, expectations, experience and desire. The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies which include Disneyland Paris tourism in sacred landscapes leisure practices in cyberspace leisure and yachting consuming pleasures the use of recreational/holiday cottages National Parks local parks and gardens. Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre. The contributors are: David Crouch, Inger Birkeland, John Urry, John Bale, Cara Aitchinson, Neil Ravenscroft, Deborah Philips, Stacy Warren, Ada Kwiatkowska, Richard Tresidder, Gert Groening, Uwe Schneider, Gill Valentine, Caroline Bassett, Chris Wilbert, Eric Laurier, Daniel R. Williams, Bjorn P.Kaltenborn, Lena Jarlov, Mike Crang, Niels Kayser Nielsen.

David Crouch is Senior University Research Fellow at the University of Derby and visiting Professor of Geography and Tourism at Karlstadt University, Sweden.