AAG Recreation, Tourism & Sport

Prof. @jmcheer1, Co-Editor-in-Chief of @TourismJournal, points to a critical shift: a growing academic focus on plural and unfolding crises and how these shape the future of global travel. 📚 Find out more from the journal: spr.ly/6017fTMqL Audio: @TourismJournal Podcast

🚩 New Research in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES. 🌳 KEY QUESTION: How can engagement and entrepreneurship in rural tourism be enabled? With thanks to Handling Editor, Dimitri Ioannides for helping shape this work.

🔗 Gauna Ruiz de León, C., Salvador Anton Clavé, Cinta Sanz-Ibáñez & Zepeda Arce, A. (2025). Agency and coevolutionary path development in tourism destinations. Tourism Geographies, 1–28. doi.org/10.1080/146166…

💥 New research in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES. 🆓 OPEN ACCESS & FREE to download 🚩 What are the critical factors that shape the evolution of a destination, and how can policymakers foster resilient, adaptive, and inclusive development strategies?

🔗 McKercher, B. (2025). Politics of tourism in public land use management: a reflexive treatise. Tourism Geographies, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/146166… If you don't have library access to the paper, I'm sure the author will be happy to oblige: bob.mckercher@connect.polyu.hk

💥 New research just out in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES. 🌏 Why do tourism stakeholders lack firm political allies in the protected area and public land use debate, and, as such, are often opposed in the political arena?

🚩 Anti-tourism sentiment is often underlined when local residents are locked out of the housing market as rental costs surge as a result of tourism growth and heightened demand for short-term rentals. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🎙️ The Tourism Geographies Podcast has just concluded Season 3 and has over 100 episodes featuring a cast of established and emerging researchers. 🎯 The Tourism Geographies Podcast gives voice to research published in Tourism Geographies, published by Taylor & Francis.

On social movements in the fight against unrestrained tourism growth and the long tail of its effects. theconversation.com/from-hotspot-t…

Cheer, Joseph M., and Mary Mostafanezhad. "On the Verge: the State-of-the-Art in tourism geographies." Tourism Geographies (2025): 1-19. doi.org/10.1080/146166…

📷 SPECIAL LECTURE 2 Existential Experience-Seeking, the Self, and Transformative Tourism in Disruptive Times By Prof. Dallen J. Timothy, Arizona State University

📷 SPECIAL LECTURE 1 Towards a Situationist tourism geography? Multi-sited ethnographic methods and the ambiances of situations By Prof. Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong, Australia

At the upcoming 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Detroit, 24-28 March, the AAG Recreation Tourism and Sport group celebrates the longstanding contributions of two stalwarts to its scholarly agenda via Invited Special Lectures.

If you're attending the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting in Detroit, the AAG RTS Business Meeting will be held during the interlude between the two special lectures planned on Monday 24 March. The 2025 Awards will be announced at the meeting.

✅ If yes to the above, you may want to apply for the following awards: 🏆 Student Paper Award 🏆 Early Career Researcher Award See full details here: aagrts.org/competitions--…

🥁 Calling colleagues attending the 2025 AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting in Detroit, 24-28 March, 2025 1️⃣ Are you attending and speaking at the conference? 2️⃣ Are you an Early Career Researcher or PhD/Masters student?

🌍 The intersections between geopolitics and tourism have been thrust into the foreground in recent days, as links between conflict zones, sovereignty and crisis capitalism emerge. 🚨 In case you missed it, Tourism Geographies 26(5), 2024, THE NEW TOURISM GEOPOLITICS, is out.

CFP! 📅 📢 @IguTourism is proud to co-host the II Ecopoltur event: 'THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TOURISM: CHALLENGES AND COMMITMENTS OF TOURISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD', in Belém, Brazilian Amazon (16th-21st August 2025). ecopolturamazonia.com.br/en/ii-ecopoltu… @jmcheer1 @Jules_C_Wilson

✨ New research just published in Tourism Geographies. 🆓 Available OPEN ACCESS and FREE to download. 🚩 NOvation and Indigenous struggle for land: Club Med’s failure in New Caledonia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…?

✨ New research just published in Tourism Geographies. 🚩 Place agency and visitor hybridity in place-making processes at sacred heritage sites 🆓 Available OPEN ACCESS and FREE to download. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…?