A plug about my books

 Need help sleeping?  Try one of these.

Bristow, R. (2025).  The Real Appalachian Trail BC.  Appalachian Trail Museum.

Jenkins, I & Bristow, R. (2024). Sensory Tourism: Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations. CABI. 

Bristow, R. S. & Jenkins, I. (eds.) (2022). Spatial and Temporal Tourism Considerations in Liminal Landscapes. Routledge.

and if something shorter, try these recent papers:

Gross, A., & Bristow , R. (2022). Rail trails and housing values: A longitudinal study. Turyzm/Tourism, 32(2), 107–126. https://doi.org/10.18778/0867-5856.32.2.06

Bristow, R. S., & Taylor, J. (2022).  Recreating the history of cultural heritage sites with 3Dimensional Modeling. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. 22(3-6):199-214. doi:10.1080/13505033.2021.1980265

Bristow, R. S., Therien, A., & LeDoux, T. (2021). Applying LiDAR for Parks and Protected Area Management.  Journal of Parks and Recreation Administration. 39(2):98-107. doi: 10.18666/JPRA-2020-10481

Bristow, R. S. & Jenkins, I. (2020). Spatial and Temporal Tourism Considerations in Liminal Landscapes. Tourism Geographies. 22(2): 219-228. doi: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1725618

Bristow, R. S. (2020). Communitas in Fright Tourism. Tourism Geographies. 22(2): 319-337. doi: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708445.

Bristow, R. S., & Therien, A. (2019). Discovering archaeological landscapes in parks and protected areas. North American Archaeologist.  Volume 40 Issue 2, pp. 99–115   doi: 10.1177/0197693119868912

Bristow, R. & Jenkins, I. (2020). Geography of Fear:  Fright Tourism Contributing to Urban Revitalization. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. 12(2): 262-275. doi: 10.1080/19407963.2019.1631319 

Use the World Catalog to find a copy in a library near you.

Zusammenhang

 

“Zusammenhang: Sustainable Tourism and Spatial Location.” Invited COLLOQUIUM Speaker at the University of Applied Science, Bulle Switzerland. September 2011.

Geo-tourism on Provo

hmmm. many different definitions of this term so I will just use it as "Geologic Features" tourism.  Finally checked out "The Hole" on Providenciales this past week. It is basically a sink hole in the limestone.

Be careful.

It is worth a visit and 15 minutes should do it.

The Changing World of Coastal, Island and Tropical Tourism

The conference program is online now at:
http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/fwi/Martinique_Program_Schedule.pdf
looks like a great one!

It will be good to meet some old "geography" friends and make some new ones.

And for someone leaving temps below zero (Fahrenheit that is), the balmy temps in Martinique will be a welcome break!

Journals for Tourism

While not all geography journals, this list is pretty comprehensive:
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/journals.html

When I did a survey on folks teaching recreation or tourism geography with Barbara Carmichael a decade ago, we found a significant loss of recreation geography courses. You need to remember that geographers were the leader in recreation research back in the 1960's and the shift to more tourism geography related teaching started in Nineties.

We also saw the birth of Tourism Geographies:
http://www.geog.nau.edu/tg/contents/index.html

Will geographers continue to lead in tourism?