Landscapes of tourism: Towards a global cultural economy of space?

This article explores the imprint on tourist landscapes of enworldment, unworldment, deworldment and transworldment processes of a newly-emerging cultural reorganization of space, in order to contribute towards tourist landscape theory, negotiated here in terms of landscape attraction, seduction and desire. Tourist landscapes become by nature and by function eloquent geographical media and expressions of this new global cultural economy of space , by hosting, promoting and exhibiting new types of spatial experiences that are increasingly more fluid, complex, surreal and a-geographical than in the past. The article begins to negotiate the ways and processes whereby such experiences are substantiated in terms of landscape seduction and the desire to travel, and constructed through complex bodily/sensual, emotional and cognitive interrelationships between the tourist and the visited landscape.