The group is organising three substantive paper sessions at the annual conference of the RGS-IBG at the University of Plymouth from 2nd to 6th January 2001. The GLTRG sessions will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th January in the Scott Gym Lecture Theatre. For further details and abstracts prior to the conference please contact the session convenors directly.
Leisure, Nature and Geographies.
Convenors: Allan Williams (Exeter) and Andrew Church (Brighton)
Encounters with Leisure and Nature
Chair: Allan Williams (Exeter)
* ‘Commodifying Nature, Risk and Liminality: ‘Safety, Injury and Nature in New Zealand’s Adventure Tourism Industry.’
S. Page (University of Stirling)
* ‘”If you can face the wild without a quiver, and gently tend the wasps that clog your jam….”: Camping, Campers and their Reflections upon Nature.’
N. Morris (University of Hull)
* ‘Nature, Leisure, Retailing and the Home.’
A. Church (University of Brighton)
Theory, Culture, Leisure and Nature
Chair: Andrew Church (Brighton)
* ‘Naturing Space: Practice and Gardening.’
D. Crouch (University of Derby, UK and University of Karlstad, Sweden)
* A Deep Ecological Perspective of Nature Tourism.
T. Acott & H. Goodwin (University of Greenwich)
* ‘Duplicating Nature’s Utopia: the Eden Project Cornwall.’
R. Bartram (College of St. Mark & St. John, Plymouth)
Last Resorts: Tourism and Change at the Seaside
Convenors and Chairs: Allan Williams and Gareth Shaw
* ‘Economic Restructuring, Coastal Tourism and Local Governance: the Case of Minehead.’
S. Agarwal (Seale-Hayne, Plymouth)
* ‘”On Margate sands I can connect nothing with nothing.”: Fragmented Competition and Competitive Disadvantage of the Seaside.’
I. Gordon (LSE)
* ‘Contesting Tourism Destinations Residents’ Reaction to Tourists in South Devon.’
S. Curtin & G. Shaw (Exeter)
* ‘Images of the Welsh Seaside Resort.’
T. Gale (Cardiff Institute)
Postgraduate Research into the Changing Geographies of Leisure and Tourism
Going Place: Risk and Innovation
Chair: Carl Cater (Bristol)
* ‘Throwing Caution (and Myself) to the Wind: Risk Seeking in Adventure Tourism.’
L. Smith (Bristol)
* ‘Home Comforts: Conceptualising the Other Side to Risk in Tourism.’
S. McCabe (Derby)
* ‘Behind the Glen: the Contested Nature of Tourism Practices in Glencoe.’
D. Knox (Durham)
* ‘Tourism and the Social Construction of Place: an Analysis of Tourists’ Spatial Practices in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada.’
C. O’Hara (Durham)
* ‘Innovative Building Use in Alpine Tourist Resorts.’
S. Chardonnel (Grenoble, France)
Society and the Sea
Chair: Carl Cater (Bristol)
* ‘A Model for Training Tourism Professionals in Tropical Marine Resource Management.’
A. Brylske (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
* ‘Life is a Beach? The Evolution and Contested Nature of the Touristic Search for Sand.’
C. Cater (Bristol)
* ‘Barriers to Sustainability among Tourism-related Businesses in South-east Cornwall.’
J. Vernon (Plymouth)