Perspective on Outdoor Recreation: A Bibliographical Survey

Abstract

Geographical study of tourism has a long history and well-established relationship with human geography. The purpose of this paper is thus to discuss the role and nature of tourism geographies in relation to human geography, by focusing on connections/disconnections between the fields. The issue of responsibility, representing one of the latest major focal points in geographical tourism studies of tourism, is also overviewed in relation to sustainability. It is concluded that, although the field of tourism geographies has become versatile and closer to the conceptual and theoretical understandings of human geography, there are increasing processes challenging the academic production and circulation system of international tourism geographies, which scholars need to deal with.

Coğrafyacilarin Turi̇zm Di̇si̇pli̇ni̇ne Akademi̇k Katkilari: "Annals of Tourism Research" Dergi̇si̇ Üzeri̇nden Beti̇msel Bi̇r Anali̇z

“…Bu dönemde yapılan çalışmalar genellikle turizmin, destinasyona (Crisler ve Hunt, 1952;Ullman, 1954;Ullman ve Volk, 1961;Deasy ve Griess, 1966) veya seyahat rotalarına (Eiselen, 1945) olan ekonomik etkilerini araştırmaya odaklanmaktaydı. 1960'lara kadar coğrafyacılar turizm araştırmalarında önemli çalışmalar yapmış olmasına rağmen asıl önemli katkılar, bölge bilimindeki gelişmelerin de katkısıyla bu tarihten sonra gelmiştir (R. E. Murphy, 1963;Wolfe, 1964Wolfe, , 1967Winsberg, 1966;L. S. Mitchell, 1969;Mercer, 1970).…”

The contribution of Roy Wolfe (1917–2014) to tourism geography

“…The third major contribution of Wolfe, and which is arguably somewhat less tangible, is with his synthetic papers that brought together the then current states of knowledge on tourism geography (Wolfe, 1964b(Wolfe, , 1966b. These works were the first substantive reviews of the tourism geography literature and provided extremely important benchmarks that have allowed the changing foci of the field to be traced and also served as important source material for tracing the genealogies and histories of tourism geography (Hall & Page, 2009;Mercer, 1970;Pearce, 1979;Smith, 1982;Wolfe, 1982).…”

Local Uniqueness in the Global Village: Heritage Tourism in Singapore

“…Where global pressures preside and when the needs of tourists are prioritised over those of residents~the result is 'inautheotic' tourist spaces (see Murphy Traditionally, geographers have tended to conflate tourism analyses with economic geography (see Wolfe 1964). The result of this has been the emphasis on economic issues in tourism at the expense of non-economic social perspectives.…”

“…Tourism and recreational topies have traditionally been subsumed within economic geography (Wolfe 1964), and a legacy of this has been the emphasis on economic topics at the expense of non-economic matters.…”