Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses
AbstractLampedusa (Italy) and Lesvos (Greece) have become significant locations where the interaction between migration and tourism is expressed through the presence of volunteer tourism, which, along...
14 Heinä 202324min
Legitimizing discourses within favela tourism
AbstractUrban slums, especially in the Global South, have become popular attractions for tourists interested in sites off the beaten track and more authentic encounters with local culture. This practi...
7 Heinä 202328min
Geopolitical imaginaries and Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) in the desert
AbstractNature-based tourism in the desert can play an important role in reconnecting people with nature. Tourist experiences are influenced by imaginaries as well as the spiritual and aesthetic value...
30 Kesä 202329min
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland
AbstractThis exploratory study presents Greenland as a case of a peripheral destination that complicates and contradicts global definitions of sustainable tourism. Using empirical data that consists o...
23 Kesä 202319min
Memory, homecoming and the politics of diaspora tourism in China
AbstractDiaspora tourism has become a significant form of transnational mobility that underlies many issues in the field of tourism and migration studies. Despite a considerable body of research that ...
16 Kesä 202316min
Narcotourism: a conceptual framework and research agenda
AbstractDespite existing in practice, as well as in other social science and policy literature, narcotourism has not appeared in tourism journals, and its full scope remains unarticulated. This paper ...
9 Kesä 202318min
Digital Technology, Tourism and Geographies of Inequality
AbstractTourism is undergoing major changes in the advent of social media networks and other new forms of digital technology. This has affected a number of tourism related processes including marketin...
2 Kesä 202323min
How do Olympic cities strategically leverage New Urban Tourism? Evidence from Tokyo
AbstractOlympic cities increasingly draw on New Urban Tourism (NUT) principles as part of a host’s strategic tourism development objectives. By doing so, governments and event organisers seek to entan...
26 Touko 202316min
