Aims and Scope of Tourism Geographies

Editorial Aims and Scope of Tourism Geographies

The aim of Tourism Geographies is to provide a peer-reviewed forum for the presentation and discussion of geographic perspectives on tourism and tourism-related areas of recreation and leisure studies. The plural, Geographies, is used to express a sensitivity and effort to reach out to the diversity of perspectives that fall under this subject matter, including both academic and applied research, regional traditions from Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and other parts of the world, and disciplinary approaches from geographers and related professionals, such as anthropologists and other social scientists, landscape architects, urban and regional planners, and environmental scientists and managers.

Tourism Geographies also serves to create a community of students, academics and practitioners with a shared interest and devotion to the geography of tourism. To achieve this, Tourism Geographies promotes new ideas, models and paradigms, encourages new research scholarship, and fosters interdisciplinary contributions that expand our knowledge of tourism as a place process and a spatial phenomenon that is shaping the environments in which we live.

We believe that there are many fundamentally geographical aspects to tourism:

Tourism occurs in places
Tourism is sold and begins in a place of origin and is consumed in destination places
Tourism transforms the environment of these places in ways that are distinct from non-tourism processes
Tourism involved the movement of people, goods, services, ideas and money over space
Tourism presents a distinct way that people view, understand and relate to the world

Tourism Geographies seeks to incorporate these aspects under the unique perspective of geography as a holistic discipline that synthesizes both the social sciences and physical sciences in its understanding of places, regions and the world in which we live. It attempts to explicitly incorporate and integrate the physical/environmental sciences and place/regional perspectives in both pure and applied research. While contributors are not be required to take this perspective, they are encouraged to do so, where appropriate.

Abstracting and Indexing

Tourism Geographies is currently (as of January 2008) listed in:

SSCI - Thomson Social Science Citation Index (ISI)
CC/S&BS - Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences
IBSS - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and Tourism
SCOPUS - Multidisciplinary Indexing and Abstracting Database
Zeller Verlag IBZ/IBR - Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography/International Development, Environmental, & Leisure/Recreation
CABI Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts
EBSCO Information Services

Tourism Geographies is also a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

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