Tourism and Place Design
Designing Places to Live, Operate and Visit
Published on 10. June 2026
232 pages
978-1-040-94842-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the tourism place design trialectic. It shows how destinations are assembled and gain meaning via social, material and ecological processes.
Drawing on human geography, tourism and media studies, the book combines theoretical perspectives such as the second gaze, participatory design, more-than-human design and digital mediation, with empirical case studies ranging from rural landscapes to culinary tourism, overtourism and VR environments and AI-driven tourism experience design. In sum, this anthology offers analytical tools and novel theoretical frameworks that throw light on the contested material and digital terrain of tourism place design.
The book is intended for students, researchers, planners, designers and professionals working with tourism development, place-making and destination planning.
Drawing on human geography, tourism and media studies, the book combines theoretical perspectives such as the second gaze, participatory design, more-than-human design and digital mediation, with empirical case studies ranging from rural landscapes to culinary tourism, overtourism and VR environments and AI-driven tourism experience design. In sum, this anthology offers analytical tools and novel theoretical frameworks that throw light on the contested material and digital terrain of tourism place design.
The book is intended for students, researchers, planners, designers and professionals working with tourism development, place-making and destination planning.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
File size
3,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-94842-2 (9781040948422)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Fredrik Hoppstadius | Mekonnen Tesfahuney | Ulrika Akerlund
Tourism and Place Design
Designing Places to Live, Operate and Visit
Book
06/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€191.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Fredrik Hoppstadius is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden, and Programme Director for the Tourism and Place Design programme. His research explores the intersections between tourism, landscape and posthuman design, with a particular focus on mobility, rurality and sustainability.
Mekonnen Tesfahuney is Professor of Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden. His work engages with postcolonial theory, critical geopolitics and mobility studies. He has published extensively on global migration, tourism and the politics of difference.
Ulrika Akerlund is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research focusses on tourism planning, regional development, crisis and resilience management and everyday life practices in Nordic and European contexts. She has led several research projects on migration and rural change.
Mekonnen Tesfahuney is Professor of Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden. His work engages with postcolonial theory, critical geopolitics and mobility studies. He has published extensively on global migration, tourism and the politics of difference.
Ulrika Akerlund is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research focusses on tourism planning, regional development, crisis and resilience management and everyday life practices in Nordic and European contexts. She has led several research projects on migration and rural change.
Content
Introduction - Tourism, Place & Design. 1. Tourism: System Design for Sustainable Experiences? 2. Naming and/or Doing Place Design: Paradoxes of Spatial Planning 3. Design as Reflective and Participatory Processes. 4.The Tourist Gaze and Place Design. 5.Designing Places Through In-Depth Place-Interviewing. 6.Designing the Rural. 7. Gastronomic Mobility and Place Design: The Role of Appetisers in Tourism. 8.Not by (Human) Design Alone: More-Than-Tourism Landscapes in Sweden and Singapore. 9. Place Inclusion/Exclusion in Overtourism. 10.Conducting Sensitive Digital Place Design. 11. Game and Play in Designing Places in VR-A Theoretical Approach to VR Tourism Emergence. 12. AI in the Development of Tourism Experiences. 13. Coda.
