This book examines the interrelationship between communication and tourism in shaping the nature of space, space and urbanism at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents play a key role in producing homogeneous places in the world, and how htese, in turn, assumes new kinds of political and cultural identity.

Virtual Geographies explore how to use new communication technologies to produce new geographies and new types of space. Senior contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literature: * Investigate how to build e-space insights * Provide critical assessment of the state of virtual environments and geography * Explore how to reshape virtual environments for our way of thinking Write about the world. This book identifies modern technological developments in a historical and geographical perspective to provide a clearer vision of new horizons in the future..