Introduction

This special issue is a compilation of articles that have been independently submitted to Tourism Geographies, but which fall under the general theme of ‘tourism space’. Geographic space is a fundamental and essential construct of the physical reality within which we live, move and construct our world. Through space we create others (anything that is any distance from ‘us’) and we experience time (by moving from one place point to another). Because it is so fundamental to our experience, we often take geographic space for granted. The selection of papers in this special issue show some of the ways that geographers and other social scientists bring spatial considerations to the forefront of our research and understanding of tourism. This is seen through the spatial arrangements and distributions of tourism phenomena, especially the spatial behavior of tourists themselves, which is increasingly being captured through various forms of digital data.