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Image 1.3: The Island of tourism & tourist imaginationings. We begin our journey by making landfall on a southward stretching spit of sandy beach whence we can gaze upon our conceptual Island of tourism and tourist imaginationings, as it rises from the sea of other fields and disciplines. In the foreground is tourism in the shape of a classic destination resort and in the back of our heads is the aim and purpose of our island sojourn. Having never been on this particular island, our former island encounters frame our view and point of reference, in particular the island Iceland. Moving around the first tourist resort on the island we ascend to chapter 2, the plateaux of image and destination. There our meandering path, steering clear of issues of theory, takes us to another tourist resort. Our expectations had been framed by the first one we saw on the tourist beach, but here having engaged with our own ideas, the sign, 10
epresentations, images and destinations we see a different one, tucked away in the shelter of theory and protected from the high North. Having explored the destination on the plateaux from the outside we ascend to the base of the tri peaks of tourism theory in chapter 3. We explore their base and thence set out our first attempt at research method, laying the best trail for those yet to come through here. Instead of climbing each peak, we see that the same altitude can be gained East and we see a glimpse of an even higher peak, shrouded in fog. Ascending further we can now get a view over the island and start to realise how tourism works both in the world and on the Earth. Issues of globalisation, climate change and sustainability gain relevance from this privileged vantage point. In chapter 4 we thus explore these as we move around the base of the fog-clad peak. We are now outside the habitable realm of tourism resort development and see those we have explored and those yet to be explored at a distance. As we move towards an earthly tourism research agenda in chapter 5, we see how ultimately tourism becomes less another resort development or a different social slice, and more “a total trip problem” of imaginationing matter-movements on and of the Earth. As the fog lifts from the peak we envision a need for Earth led priorities and perspective when exploring tourism imaginationings. The Island of tourism and tourist imaginationings, that every tourism scholar is bound to travel through, is indeed more than what it appears to be. 11
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Page 6 and 7: esearch but also “education and c
Page 8 and 9: Tourism images have had a longstand
Page 10 and 11: gradually expanded and become more
Page 12 and 13: Tourism - an earthly business For u
Page 17 and 18: 2. Image & destination The actual a
Page 19 and 20: variety of sources could be used in
Page 21 and 22: consequences for how she or he will
Page 23 and 24: either the textual or the visual, a
Page 25 and 26: Composed of numerous small encounte
Page 27 and 28: materiality. Yet, you are able to r
Page 29 and 30: demand it is mediated by investment
Page 31 and 32: tourism reflects broader social and
Page 33: signification, not the least in tou
Page 36 and 37: usiness and market to potential cus
Page 38 and 39: ound to cross traditional disciplin
Page 40 and 41: sightseeing and whatever activities
Page 42 and 43: Social science research is carried
Page 44 and 45: environment. If they had, they were
Page 46 and 47: Our argument is that it is importan
Page 48 and 49: able to cross the minds of many tho
Page 50 and 51: Eight on my list is the heritage of
Page 52 and 53: The cartography of tourism imaginat
Page 54 and 55: Images of Iceland as a tourist dest
Page 56 and 57: Whatever the specifics and forms of
Page 58 and 59: Are you dressed in the road map of
Page 60 and 61: Summing up It has often been lament
Page 62 and 63: A challenge for tourism theory and
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carved in stone, they are not given
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some of the things that signalled t
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Tourist was in fact that “we are
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globalisation gets attributed excep
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do so on the basis of its own speci
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Arguing for or against the idea of
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pushed many economies towards crisi
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Whatever new ideologies of tourism
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The IPCC Reports are based on reach
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As evidenced by the Davos Declarati
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supports the position that signific
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“voluntary compensation is still
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terms of both adaption and mitigati
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Pratt and Watts 2000, p. 840). What
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co-creator of tourist spaces” (Ek
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can researchers use photography and
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latter, in order to set the scene f
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Even though the Earth is mentioned
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[M]ost significant phenomena that t
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social science when it presents its
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They further argue that “[t]ouris
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meaning and matter. The research ag
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REFERENCES Aramberri, J. (2009). Th
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Franklin, A. (2004). Tourism as ord
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Jóhannesson, G.Þ. and Huijbens. E
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Shaw, G. and Williams, A. (2004). T
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