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This paper proposes an interpretation of the intersection of extractivism and frontiers. It explores the effects of the progressive settling of luxury wine tourism and protected areas over small livestock producers associated to grazing systems. We choose a locality at the foothills of the Andes cordillera (Uco Valley), focusing on the site called Manzano Histórico (Historical Apple Tree). The combined use of different research tools (secondary data and documents analysis, in-depth interviews, direct observation, and the production of cartography) permits to observe that these territories --the living space for cattle producers-- have been progressively incorporated to capital and conservation, especially since the xxi century. At present, they express multiple and diverse compression situations on direct producers, that lead in turn to a remodeling of cattle-raising activities keeping pace with high-end tourism. This paper shows that high-end tourism and nature conservation are not opposed but rather mutually reinforcing activities. Also, that direct producers are not victims in lack of agency, since they reshape their productive profiles to take part in the tourism market highlighting their particular traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the relationship between tourism, geography, and images, seeking to recognize how images mediate place tourist experience. To do this, the paper analyzes the official tourism promotion of Salta (Argentina) considering the main ideas about the destination created by local government. This is done by examining graphic material (booklets, books, magazines, brochures, posters, maps, etc.) edited and distributed by provincial government since 2007 to 2019. The analysis of graphic devices produced by provincial government shows that there are two main ideas about Salta as a tourist place. One of them portraits Salta as an unvisited place that is ideal for initial exploration. The other idea depicts it as a place where tourists can get access to an unaltered and rich cultural heritage. The text concludes by pointing out that official promotion strategy renews tourists' interest for the exotic, the different, and the remote, while allowing the multiplication of business options in a context where diversity is necessary to increase consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the way in which identity is constructed through exchange processes, narratives and imaginary in places principally defined by tourism. We introduce the concept of identity networks as a construct to analyze the forms of interaction between different identities, territoriality and social practices that operate locally. The article concludes that there are different narratives by which a map can be constructed of references underlying the multiple identities of the inhabitants; identity is no longer a defining, immanent and endemic feature but a mutable, versatile and multi-spectral condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literary tourism is an emerging field of human geography and cultural history that rediscovers the most significant spaces in each territory through the narrative representations about them. Based on an investigation, the paper shows the results of source criticism and discourse analysis of two hundred literary works that focus on the territory of Santander (Colombia) during the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that the construction of the imaginary of "Santanderness" is associated with a vast literary tradition and the creation of new identity and collective recreation spaces such as the Chicamocha National Park (Panachi). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between tourism and borders has seen renewed academic interest over the last decades. This paper presents a literature review on this theme, with particular focus on geographical studies, and identifies some major lines of research as well as the main theoretical contributions. Whereas most of the articles focus on a particular case study, some of them make an effort to conceptualize the knowledge produced. However, these contributions do not always incorporate the new approaches on tourism and border studies. Nevertheless, some research has begun to trace some new arguments to re-think the relationship between tourism and borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]