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North American tourism and cultural geography
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North American tourism and cultural geography

Klaus J. Meyer-Arendt and Geoffrey Wall
Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol.11(1), pp.1-3
11
1992

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Abstract

This special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography on North American Tourism is offered to present examples of geographic research on tourism that incorporate culture as an integral component. In 1980, the very first issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography contained a review article and bibliography on tourism by journal editor Alvar Carlson. 5 Although the article documented growing concern with tourism by geographers, few articles on tourism have appeared in the journal during the subsequent decade. This special issue partly reflects efforts both to offset this paucity of contributions and to strengthen the links between tourism research and cultural geography. Although not all major research thrusts of cultural geography-including cultural ecology, cultural landscape analysis, cultural/historical studies, material culture, and cultural impact studies-are represented herein, the following articles represent geographic and methodologic diversity. The historical approach is a popular one, yet the diversity of articles ranges both from academic to applied on the research spectrum and also from the past to the future on the time spectrum. It is anticipated that the focus of geographic research on international tourism, which will constitute a second special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography in 1992, will differ somewhat from the focus presented by this issue's collection of articles.

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