Special Topic Issues & Sections
published in Tourism Geographies

Most special topic issues are organized by guest editors working with the journal's co-Editor-in-Chiefs. In other instances, papers submitted to the journal that are found to be related to a common theme are clustered in a special topic section or issue (these are indicated by *). Potential guest editors are encouraged to contact the TG Co-Editors-in-Chief with proposals for special issue topics. 

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Forthcoming Special Issues
​(no longer accepting papers)

Published Special Issues

- Island Tourism Destinations, Lifecycles, System Decline, and Resilience - Vol. 23, No.3 (Jun-Jul 2021) - Michelle Mc Leod, Rachel Dodds & Richard Butler 
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- ​Creative and Disruptive Methodologies in Tourism Studies  - Vol 23, No. 1-2  (Jan-April, 2021) - editors: Milka Ivanova, Dorina-Maria Buda & Elisa Burrai

- Reset: Visions of Travel & Tourism ​​after the ​Global COVID-19 Transformation of 2020 - Vol. 22, No. 3  (July, 2020) - see the webpage for this issue - also in book form

- Spatial and Temporal Tourism Considerations in Liminal Landscapes - Vol. 22, No. 2 (May 2020) - Robert S. Bristow & Ian S. Jenkins  - also in book form

- Tourism Enclaves -  Vol. 21, No. 5 (December 2019​)  editors: Jarkko Saarinen & Sandra Wall-Reinius - also in book form

- Geographies of religion and spirituality: pilgrimage beyond the "officially" sacred - Vol. 21, No. 3 (July 2019) - editors: Jaeyeon Choe & Michael Di Giovine - also in book form

- Tourism Places in Asia - Vol. 21, No 1 (February 2019) - editor: Alan Lew - also in book form​

- Tourism and the UN Sustainable Development Goals - (virtual special issue November 2018) - editor: Jarkko Saarinen - also in book form

- Inclusive Tourism - Vol. 20, No. 4 (October 2018) - editors: Regina Scheyvans & Robin Biddulph - also in book form

- Urban Planning and Tourism in European Cities: Overtourism, Placemaking and Heritage - Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2018) - editor: Noam Shoval - also in book form

- Tourism in Changing Environments - Vol. 20, No. 2 (May 2018) - editors: Natalie Ooi, Esther Duke & Joseph O'Leary - also in book form

- Tourism's Labour Geographies -  Vol. 20, No. 1 (February 2018) - editors: Dimitri Ioannides & Kristina Zampoukos

- Tourism Geographies 20th Anniversary Commentaries* - Vol. 20, No. 1 (Feb 2018); V20 N2 (May 2018); V20 N4 (Oct 2018); and V20 N5 (Dec 2018)

- Tourism Planning and Development - Vol. 19, No. 3 (July 2017) - guest editors: Jarkko Saarinen, Christian M. Rogerson & C. Michael Hall - also in book form

- Theming Asia: Theme Park Experiences in East and Southeast Asia - Vol. 19, No. 2 (May 2017) - editors: Maribeth Erb & Chin-Ee Ong - also in book form

- Proximity and Intraregional Aspects of Tourism - Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2017) - editors: Jelmer Jeuring, Inmaculada Diaz Soria - also in book form
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- Critical Engagements with Nature: Tourism, political economy of nature and political ecology* - Vol. 17, No. 4 (October 2015) - editor: Jan Mosedale

- Tourism Geography Research in China (community tourism development in China) - Vol. 16, No. 5 (December 2014) - editors: Honggang Xu, Chaozhi Zhang & Alan A. Lew

- Evolutionary Economic Geography and the Economies of Tourism Destinations - Vol 16, No. 4 (October 2014) - editors: Dimitri Ioannides, Henrik Halkier & Alan A. Lew

- Managing and Adapting to Global Change in Tourism Places* - Vol. 16, no. 3 (July 2014) - also in book form 

- Cultural Geographies of Tourism: Image, Identity and Place* - Vol. 16, no. 2 (May 2014)

- New Research Paradigms in Tourism Geography - Vol. 16, no. 1 (February 2014) - also in book form

- African-American Travel and Tourism Landscapes - vol. 15, no. 3 (August 2013) - editor: Derek H. Alderman

- Mobilities: Transportation, Wayfinding and GPS - vol. 15, no 3 (August 2013) 

- Island and Coastal Tourism Development Experiences - vol. 15, no 1 (Februrary 2013) - also in book form - editors: Klaus J. Meyer-Arendt & Alan A. Lew

- Global Perspectives on Slum Tourism - vol. 14, no 2 (May 2012) - also in book form - editors: Fabian Frenzel & Ko Koens
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- Worldmakings of Tourism - vol. 11, no. 4 (November 2009) - editors: Keith Hollinshead , Irena Ateljevic & Nazia Ali

- Tourism Development and Perceptions in Australia and Canada* - vol. 11, no. 2 (May 2009)

- Geography and Tourism in Higher Education - vol. 11, no. 1 (February 2009)

- Tourism in Transition Economies - vol. 10, no. 4 (November 2008)

- Rural Tourism in Europe - vol. 9, no. 4 (November 2007)

- Tourism in Asia* - vol. 8, no. 3 (August 2006)

- Border Tourism - vol. 8, no. 2 (May 2006)

- Tourism in Canada* - vol. 8, no. 1 (February 2006)

- Tourism and Water* - vol. 4, no. 4 (November 2002)

- Tourism in Mexico - vol. 4, no. 3 (August 2002)

- Ecotourism in Asia* - vol. 4, no.2 (May 2002)

- Place Promotion and Boosterism* - vol. 3, no. 3 (August 2001)

- Tourism in Mediterranean Europe* - vol 3, no. 1 (February 2001)

- Tourism in Asia - vol. 2, no. 4 (November 2000)

- Current Issues and Research in the Geography of Tourism - vol 2, no 3 (August 2000)

- Tourism and Migration - vol. 2, no 1 (February 2000)

- Tourism Issues in Subsaharan Africa and the Caribbean* - vol. 1, no. 3 (August 1999)

* indicates a "special section" that is only a portion of the full issue of the journal