Tourism Geographies, Vol.1, No.4, pp. 477-487 (return to Table of Contents for Vol.1)

Commentary: Recreation, tourism and sport geography: a North American summary and online bibliography

by

Klaus J. Meyer-Arendt
Department of Environmental Studies, University of West Florida

and

Alan A. Lew
Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University

Abstract

Research on recreation, tourism and sport, conducted by geographers in North America (US and Canada) from 1988 to 1998 was compiled and the resulting bibliography can be found on the WWW at: <www.geog.nau.edu/tg/contents/v1n4refs.html>. The context of North American geography is one of considerable diversity, though somewhat insular in subject matter. In addition to many general introductory and overview books and articles, much of the focus of recreation and tourism geographic research in North America was applied rather than theoretical. This has been changing in the 1990s as the volume of research, especially on tourism topics, has increased considerably and more authors are publishing in leading general geography journals.

Keywords: Recreation geography, tourism geography, sport geography, North America, bibliography.

Also see: Tourism Geographies' Tourism Bibliography page for related topics

A slightly larger version of this Commentary will be published in the second edition of the book, Geography in America - due to be published in later 2003 or 2004.