Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods

Abstract

In my previous report, I alluded to the contradictory situation where tourism appears marginal to debates about ‘criticality’ and ‘relevance’ in human geography, while simultaneously tourism geographers have been doing precisely the kinds of research that commentators have claimed are needed. Accordingly, in my second and third progress reports, I aim to draw attention to critical tourism geographies.