Chapter 10: Conclusion: Contrasting Geographies of Tourism in Europe

In order to build bridges among different traditions within geographies of tourism, the contributions to this volume have the capacity of explaining to an English-speaking academic audience and scholars working from within different linguistic region what exactly it is that tourism geographers are researching in these non-Anglophone European regions/linguistic domains. In fact, academics that do not have the capacity to speak/read/understand other languages arguably miss out on the opportunity to import/use/adapt/analyze ideas, concepts, views, interpretations, and even empirical case studies produced and subsequently published in other languages, unless they happen to get translated and published in the Anglo-American domain. This is an important and relevant point in the sense that parallel academicuniverses based on the geographies of tourism have been created and are still in the process of expanding into other regions and languages. In addition, even though number of academic outputs that get published in the dominant Anglo-American circuits of knowledge dissemination is growing, many ideas, concepts, views, and interpretative frameworks that hold potential interest in terms of the development of the discipline remain on the periphery or are excluded entirely. As a consequence, these ideas tend to remain isolated with respect to other regional and linguistic traditions.