Session Title: Economic geography and tourism
Contact person: Dimitri Ioannides DIoannides@...

Session Description:

Much discussion has been made in recent times concerning the appearance
of a so-called "experience economy." The term originally coined by
economists Pine and Gillmore (1999) generally implies that our modern
society has become one dominated by businesses whose principal aim is to
generate experiences. Being the "poster child" of the experience
economy, tourism remains a sector that is not well defined and, as such,
it is one that is hard to measure. Some of the questions that continue
to dog researchers include: (a) what exactly is the tourist industry;
(b) how do we disentangle the experience part of the tourist product
from more tangible aspects like hotel rooms and airline seats; (c) what
methodological tools do we have at our disposal to improve the
measurement of tourism? (d) what is the magnitude of tourism within
cities?

If you have a paper on these aspects or any others that explore the
interconnections of economic geography to travel and tourism please
consider submitting your abstract to me as soon as possible. Thanks.

Dimitri Ioannides PhD
Professor of Tourism Planning and Development
Dept. of Geography, Geology, and Planning
Missouri State University
Springfield
MO 65897
USA

Phone: 417-836-5318
Cell: 417-848-5440
Fax: 417-836-6006

email: dioannides@...



Sanjay K. Nepal, PhD
Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX-77845-2261
Tel: 979 862 4080 Fax: 979 845 0446
http://www.rpts.tamu.edu

Editor-in-Chief
eReview of Tourism Research
http://ertr.tamu.edu/

Chair
Recreation, Tourism and Sports Specialty Group,
The Association of American Geographers (AAG)
http://www.geog.nau.edu/rts