tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371919710201150712024-03-12T20:15:54.513-07:00TGJournal's Tourism PlaceThis is an affiliated blog for the journal, <i>Tourism Geographies</i> at <b>TGJournal.com</b>, for posting editorial comments, book reviews and preliminary research notes that may also appear in the journal.The Travel Geographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17374093285849135840noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-79960359567490407972016-10-07T20:46:00.000-07:002016-10-07T20:47:37.167-07:00Tourism Place has a New HomeThe Tourism Place Blog has a new home. It is now on the website for my journal, Tourism Geographies.
Click Here to go directly to the new Tourism Place Blog's home.
You may find that the content of the Tourism Place blog has changed. It is now more of a support site for the journal.
I have a couple of other tourism-related blogs that are more research, thought and experience related, Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-47319763029161931032013-01-20T15:39:00.000-07:002013-01-23T22:21:57.134-07:00Public and Private Sustainable Tourism: Environmental Footprints and Quality of Life
'Sustainable development' has been a popular
conceptual framework since the World Commission on Environment and Development
issued its report to the United Nations in 1987 (WCED, 1987). Also
known as the “Brundtland Report”,
after the commission’s chairperson, Gro Harlmen Bundtland of Norway, its goal
was to define a new approach to addressing pressing social and environmental
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Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-49331176949008299902012-08-12T21:56:00.001-07:002012-09-02T09:26:05.306-07:00Easy and Hard Sustainability: Sustainable Tourism and Sustainable Cities
While almost everything I research and write about is tourism related, the classes that I actually teach at Northern Arizona University are mostly not tourism related, but are in urban and regional planning. I have a master degree in urban planning and am a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. I also follow email lists for practicing planners, academic planners andAlan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-23335683506841653832012-04-29T18:54:00.003-07:002012-04-29T19:15:46.938-07:00The Challenge of Benchmarking Tourism's Global Economic Value
In 2008, I posted on this blog: "Tourism is Not the World's Largest Industry" -- which actually came from my book: Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: An Integrated Approach (with C.Michael Hall, 2009, Routledge, UK). That post has been one of the most visited on my blog.
I see today that the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has recently commissioned a study to, Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-72515238894666019202012-04-07T08:29:00.003-07:002012-04-08T04:37:10.194-07:00The Top 10 Dive Destinations in the World -- Really!
I just finished writing a book chapter on the World Geography of Scuba Diving for a book that a friend is putting together on recreation dive tourism. One of the things that I did for that chapter was to look at 15 online lists of "the top ten dive sites in the world".
Taken at Pulau Sapi (Sapi Island) very close to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Here is my list of the World's Top 10Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-76448622211702431242012-03-26T22:01:00.000-07:002012-04-07T22:10:42.630-07:00Memorable Places: HanoiThis was recently posting on my Travelography blog, where I talk about my personal travels. I thought it might be of interest to readers here, as well....
Hanoi: How to Make a Place Memorable
... We left Hanoi feeling really good. We thoroughly enjoyed the city and
felt like it was a place that we both wanted to visit again some day.
Part of that was the great walking Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-78363405796556078702012-03-03T08:08:00.002-07:002012-03-26T22:04:40.746-07:00Travel Hungry? Look at this....I have long felt that a lot of the research coming out of the neurosciences these days can inform our understanding of tourism and tourist behavior. I also know that a lot of that research is controversial with results that are probably overstated. With that caveat, though, I saw a recent article in 'Science Daily' that discussed research on how "what's going on inside our head Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-83852324552846736682012-02-08T16:42:00.003-07:002012-03-26T22:04:18.283-07:00Have Blog, Will TravelI have been “on the road” for just over a month now. I received a
Fulbright research grant to spend six months in Malaysia studying
coastal tourism development. The first month was a whirlwind tour that
included about a week each in Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu (mostly house
hunting), Singapore (for Chinese New Year), and a road trip from Johor
Bahru to Kuala Terengganu (one of my research Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-63487621417044552752011-12-20T08:13:00.001-07:002011-12-20T08:58:28.395-07:00Topophilia and Emotional Geographies in Tourism Destinations
Topophilia is “the feeling of affection which individuals
have for particular places” (Tuan, 1961).
The term was first coined in 1947 by the American poet, W.H. Auden, and
became popularized, at least among academic geographers, by Yi-Fu Tuan’s book, Topophilia: a study of environmental
perception, attitudes, and values, which was published in 1974
(Prentice-Hall).
Recent work inAlan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-61669758918323555022011-10-24T19:53:00.002-07:002011-10-26T15:46:45.728-07:00Crossing Chasms: The Role of Distance in Tourism
Over the years, tourism scholars have come up with a large
number of different ways to segment tourist markets so that different products
can be more precisely targeted to potential travelers. Probably the most famous
of these is Stanley Plogs division of the both travelers and destinations into “psychocentrics”
(associated with security, familiarity and mass products) “allocentrics” (Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-74203163780032544142011-09-28T06:53:00.000-07:002011-09-28T07:52:18.816-07:00Emerging Research Themes for Tourism: Insights from Geography
The annual meeting of the Association of American
Geographers (AAG) is held every Spring. In 2011 in was held in Seattle, April
12-16. In the previous fall there are a plethora of CFPs (Call for Papers) from
people who are organizing paper sessions. I am personally on several geography email
lists, including UrbGeog (urban geography), EconomicGeography, CulturalGeog,
and LeftGeog, in addition Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-46338445021815516812011-07-27T10:41:00.002-07:002011-07-31T11:37:55.474-07:00China's Exploding Tourism Economy: Three ExamplesFew things demonstrate the rapid rate of modernization and postmodern tourism consumption in China as does the rise in tourism activity and the country's tourism economy. I just returned from a couple of weeks in China attending a conference, a field trip and giving some guest lectures at a university.
The trip took me to Zhangjiajie National Park in Hunan Province for a tourism Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-2667341885848163522011-06-10T19:56:00.001-07:002011-06-10T19:57:10.023-07:00Us and Them among Tourists in TaiwanTourists are humans and tend to behave as any other human social animal. One human behavioral characteristic is to form social groups that include some (“Us”) and exclude other (“Them”).
I saw this recently during my second visit to Taiwan in the past eight months. I went to Sun Moon Lake in the central Taiwan mountains which is possibly the biggest single tourist attraction in TaiwanAlan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-33353259963573269472011-05-04T10:27:00.010-07:002011-05-05T20:30:21.083-07:00The Sustainable Tourism Conundrum: Would you Stop Traveling to Save the Planet?
Would you stop traveling to save the planet? That is the challenge of sustainable tourism! #aag2011
I posted that on Twitter on April 13, 2011 while listening to a presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. It was my most re-tweeted post at the conference, and one of the most re-tweeted of all of the #AAG2011 tagged posts.
The comment was writtenAlan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-77793788543354536982011-04-19T14:01:00.003-07:002011-05-09T22:56:32.063-07:00The Best Tourism Places
I just returned from the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle, WA. This annual geography-love-fest drew some 7000 geographers (mostly university and college teachers and students) and included some 3,500 presentations. Among those presentations were 107 papers that included the keyword "tourism". You can search and view the abstracts forAlan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-13195271241176982712011-04-09T19:03:00.001-07:002011-04-09T19:04:22.456-07:00Tourism Incognita Part 2: Terra incognita and Topophilia Presentation VideoIf you've half an hour to spare, here is my recent talk in Martinique on the topic of Tourism Incognita:
Terra incognita and topophilia : the importance of remoteness and the unexpected in the tourist experience
Contributeur(s) majeur(s) : Lew, Alan, A. Date : 2011-01-27
Production : Université des Antilles et de la Guyane ; CEREGMIA : Centre d'études et de recherche en économie, Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-43512985975156277102011-03-17T18:18:00.005-07:002011-04-09T19:07:04.419-07:00Tourism Incognita - The Importance of the UnexpectedMy email inbox these days seems to be overflowing with more "all-inclusive" travel deals than I have seen in a long time. All-inclusive experiences are certainly attractive -- no need to think about anything other than getting to your destination resort. They are also very popular -- as evidenced by the continual growth in cruise ships, the ultimate all-inclusive experiences. Unfortunately, Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-42302119982846273252011-01-11T10:35:00.001-07:002011-01-11T10:36:26.721-07:00Nostalgia for the Family Holiday VacationNostalgia for the Family Holiday Vacation
by Alan A. Lew, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University, USA
A Literature Review of:
Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations by Susan Sessions Rugh (University of Kansas Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7006-1588-9)
- and -
Theme Park by Scott A. Lukas (Reaktion Books, 2008, ISBN Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-64383550415702409182011-01-11T10:25:00.001-07:002011-01-11T10:25:27.881-07:00A Review of “Tourism in the USA: A Spatial and Social Synthesis”Tourism in the USA: A Spatial and Social Synthesisby Dimitri Ioannides & Dallen J. Timothypublished by Routledge, London and New York, 2010, ISBN 0-415-95685-4 Reviewed by Patrick Brouder, Department of Social & Economic Geography, Ume University, Sweden
This 222-page book sets out to give a comprehensive overview of tourism in the USA. The title hints that the Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-62574236413562915722010-10-16T10:31:00.003-07:002010-10-16T10:40:07.339-07:00Time as a Major Barrier to Sustainable Development
Author: Alan A. Lew, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University, Arizona, USA
Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010, pages 481 - 483
There are many barriers to sustainable development, including
* just defining what sustainable development is;
* trying to making connections between Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-65327325948754868262010-10-16T09:54:00.007-07:002010-10-16T10:49:37.505-07:00Landscape, Tourism and MeaningBook Review of: Landscape, Tourism and Meaning by Daniel C. Knudsen, Michelle M. Metro-Roland, Anne K. Soper & Charles E. Greer (Eds), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-4943-4
Reviewed by : Brian Graham, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, UK
Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010, pages 484 - 486
This book, which is a Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-51136340340985756612010-08-15T13:23:00.011-07:002010-10-16T10:55:16.949-07:00Publishing Tourism Geography ResearchAuthor: Deborah Che
Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2010, pages 324 - 328
At the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Las Vegas, Nevada (22-27 March), geographers shared their experiences as participants in a stimulating and thought-provoking panel on 'Publishing Tourism Geography Research'. I organized this session in order to Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-3819319681178483202009-11-04T15:28:00.001-07:002009-11-04T15:31:08.464-07:00The 4 Best Tourism Journals! Shaul Krakover sent the photo above, saying: “I attach here a photo taken at our Tourism Destination Development and Branding Conference, held October 14-15, 2009, at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat Campus, Israel. The photo presents the 4 best tourism journals!  It was taken in a session on "Publishing in the Academic Hospitality and Tourism Literature: Trends and Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437191971020115071.post-55973802732240911012009-10-26T22:04:00.001-07:002009-10-26T22:04:18.755-07:00Learning To See Through Travel----------- Can We 'Learn To See?': Study Shows Perception Of Invisible Stimuli Improves With Training ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2009) — Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness. A new study in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's Journal of Vision reveals that our Alan A Lewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229384291025691794noreply@blogger.com0