Cartographic representation of tourist areas: The small‐scale map

In the course of the development of the scientific study of tourism two trends have dominated the direction of the work that might be called geographical. First, the study of international movements, the loss and gain to the different countries from the exchange of their nationals as tourists. This work has mostly been carried out on a broad scale, treating each state as an undifferentiated unit both as a generator of tourists and often as an attraction to them as well. The map has been little used in such work, and would have been of little value if it had been. At the other end of the scale has been the study of the single resort or objective, and arising from this the study of the tourist‐region, which may be defined shortly as a group of related resorts and objectives. In the analysis of the individual tourist‐region the map has played a very large part. The geographers who have contributed to this branch of our study have been Carlson (1938), Poser (1939), Deasy (1949), Christaller (1955), Robinson (1957) and Defert (1950–1958). The last has recently summed up the scope and methods of this kind of work so ably and completely that for the time being little remains to be said about it.