This collection contains critical studies on tourism development and planning, and calls for proactive, holistic and responsible thinking. It argues that recognition of the contextual and historical dimensions around tourism development and planning is essential to help both researchers and practitioners better understand destination and place-b

Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Christian M. Rogerson is a Research Professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

C. Michael Hall is a Professor in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

1. Geographies of Tourism Development and Planning 2. Political Trust and Residents' Support for Alternative and Mass Tourism: An Improved Structural Model 3. Networking and Learning for Tourism Innovation: Evidence from the Western Cape 4. Moral Assemblages of Volunteer Tourism Development in Cusco, Peru 5. The Value of Community-based Tourism in Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia 6. Modelling Tourism and Hospitality Employment Clusters: A Spatial Econometric Approach 7. Enclavic Tourism Spaces: Territorialization and Bordering in Tourism Destination Development and Planning 8. Evolutionary Economic Geography: Reflections from a Sustainable Tourism Perspective 9. Tourism Planning and Place Making: Place-making or Placemaking? 10. 'Putting Place on a Plate' Along the West Cork Food Trail 11. Community, State and Power-relations in community-based tourism on Lekhubu Island, Botswana 12. Modeling the State of Agritourism in the Malopolska Region of Poland 13. Reconsidering 'Development' in Tourism Research Geography