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This paper uses structuration theory and the methods of historical geography to explore the conditions in which a Jim Crow-era hotel run by and for American Americans flourished at the edge of one of the nineteenth century's most popular tourist destinations, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. It identifies structures, legal and customary, that hindered African American travel, but also, in this particular region, other structures linked to early twentieth-century capitalism that allowed room for agency on the part of the hotel's proprietors. It demonstrates the importance of understanding networks of social relations when undertaking micro-scale structuration analysis and contributes to our understanding of a little-studied aspect of Jim Crow-era tourism, the use of temporal and spatial strategies to create separate places within white tourist destinations for African American tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The growth paths of resorts has been an enduring topic of tourism research for over sixty years yet the ability to operationalize models currently put forward to explain the process has not been satisfactorily demonstrated. The Resort Development Spectrum discussed in this paper is a candidate for providing a model that does possesses an ability to be used as a planning tool in the forecasting of the likely pattern of resort development into the future. The model is multidimensional and based on an understanding of the demand-side response to the market that operates in resorts and incorporates elements of Fordist, post-Fordist interpretation of production and demand. The model is tested by using it to explain the last 130 years of development on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The model is found to satisfactorily explain the growth path of tourism development on the Gold Coast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]