- Title
- Host communities and last chance tourism
- Creator
- Schweinsberg, Stephen; Wearing, Stephen; Lai, Po-Hsin
- Relation
- Tourism Geographies Vol. 23, Issue 5-6, p. 945-962
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2019.1708446
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Last Chance Tourism (LCT) has emerged in recent years as an adaptive response of the global tourism industry to the threats and opportunities of climate change. Referring to the act of travellers explicitly seeking out natural and/or cultural attractions that they deem to be at threat, LCT occurs in many of the World’s most iconic and fragile tourism destination regions. While academic scholarship around LCT grows, authors are beginning to question the lack of attention paid to LCT’s theoretical underpinnings. One potential contribution is Lefebvre’s notion of a Three-Fold view of space, encompassing the interrelated forces of: spatial practice, representations of space, and spaces of representation as a conceptual framing for understanding the spatial dimensions of LCT in Churchill (Canada). Demonstrating both the totality of space and the interrelated nature of its constituent parts, Lefebvre’s view of space offers a foundation for future empirical work looking to explore the host community perspective on LCT.
- Subject
- last chance tourism; climate change; spatial practices; representations of space; spaces of representations; Churchill, Canada; SDG 8; SDG 12; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437525
- Identifier
- uon:40377
- Identifier
- ISSN:1461-6688
- Language
- eng
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