Introduction: Building Bridges in European Geographies of Tourism

‘Tourism Geographies are moving out’ – A comment on the current state of Institutional Geographies of Tourism Geographies

“…Also in the case of authors from the dominating countries in terms of publishing, the US and the UK, only a third are affiliated with geography departments. Meanwhile, in the European non-English-speaking world, tourism geographies seem to still be more integrated into geography departments, though as noted earlier, even there a move into different departments is increasingly likely (Müller, 2010;Wilson & Clavé, 2013).…”

“…Likewise, its members have contributed extensively to the scientific literature. Recent reviews impressively demonstrate the development of the sub-discipline (Butler 2004;Gibson 2008Gibson , 2009Hall & Page 2009;Wilson & Clavé 2013). In addition, several monographs summarize the findings of tourism geographical research, highlighting the variations in and richness of the field.…”

“…Particularly The Geography of Tourism and Recreation (Hall & Page 2014), published in its fourth edition in 2014, has become popular reading for interested scholars and students. Similarly, other mandatory reading includes A Companion to Tourism (Hall et al 2004) and The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies edited by Wilson (2013), mainly based on the contributions of tourism geographers and included in a geography series. Hence, it can be noted that tourism geographies have had a positive and lively development, manifested in conferences and scientific publications.…”