Our Occasional Newsletter (Issue #1, May 27, 2021)
Why You Should be Reading TGx
‘Tourism Geographic’ is taking flight so get on board!
Coming On Strong in 2021
Tourism Geographic (TGx) was soft-launched 3 months ago at the end of February of this year (2021). Our official launch on social media sites was around March 9th and 10th.
Since that time, we have published 23 full articles, plus about 15 “news and information” articles related to Tourism Geographic and Tourism Geographies. Collectively, those articles have been viewed 9,236 times, with viewers spending a total of 7,179 minutes (117 hours) reading them.
TGx averaged 52 visitors a day since its soft launch. That number increased to 70 daily visitors this past month. The publication itself has 101 followers. However, the TGx Editor account (with the green globe avatar) from which most of the articles are published has 154 followers.
We expect the number of daily visitors, daily article views, daily minute read, and our number of followers will all increase in the coming months.
(More details on our bibliometric stats are provided below.)
TGx is Now Publishing Grad/Post-Grad Articles
The Editors of Tourism Geographic recently announced that they will be accepting articles based on theses and dissertations by graduate/post-graduate students.
Our first article of this type is authored by Brendan O’Brien (Master of Science, Northern Arizona University, 2021).
Encourage your students to share their research with us! — See here for more information:
TGx Covers the Globe
Tourism Geographic is full of stories from special places throughout the world of tourism. Among the place specific articles published to date there are 16 countries, spanning 6 continents:
- Oceania — Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, & Australia
- Asia — India, Kazakhstan, & Oman
- Africa — Ghana (twice!), Namibia, & South Africa
- Europe — Spain & Denmark
- North America — Canada & the United States of America
- South America — Peru
With some 250 countries in the world, we have a lot more territory to cover. And we hope that the 7th continent — Antarctica — will be featured in a future post too!
It is not just the places but the people that make these stories so powerful and we look forward to continuing to share with you the latest and greatest from the world of Tourism Geographic.
Thank You, Authors
Thanks to all the authors who have submitted articles to Tourism Geographic in our first 3 months.
Authors with ‘Medium’ Accounts
Joseph M. Cheer — Mingming Cheng — Manuela Gutberlet — Linus Kalvelage — Alan A. Lew — Brendan O’Brien — Andreas Papatheodorou — Ioulia Poulaki
Other Authors
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt, Daniel Hammett, David Bowen, Dawn Gibson, Denis Tolkach, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah, Emma J. Stewart, Eva Duedahl, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, Guillaume Tiberghien, J. John Lennon, Janne Liburd, Javier Revilla Diez, Kiran Shinde, Michael Bollig, Peter Lugosi, Po-Hsin Lai, Rosa Codina, Roslyn Kerr, Stephen Pratt, Stephen Schweinsberg, Stephen Wearing, and Wantanee Suntikul.
TGx Uses Creative Commons Copyright
We at Tourism Geographic encourage open sharing of all of our content. To that end, all TGx articles are published with a Creative Commons-Attribution-No Derivatives copyright.
This means the articles can be copied and posted in any way, just so long as:
— (1) the original author and website for the article is cited, and
— (2) no changes are made to the text of the article.
This copyright applies to the text only. Images in the articles have different copyrights, some of which do not allow sharing. For more information, see:
This is the same copyright used by The Conversation. TGx also republishes some of the tourism articles from The Conversation. For more on that, see:
Detailed Bibliometric Statistics for TGx
Medium provides some basic statistics for publications like Tourism Geographic. (Click on the charts below to enlarge them.)
Since the first Tourism Geographic articles were published in our soft launch at the end of February, people have spent over 7,000 minutes (117 hours) reading Tourism Geographic articles. This averaged 80 minutes a day. For the past 30 days, however, the average was 93 minutes, showing how we are gradually growing our audience.
We have averaged 102 article views a day since our soft launch 90 days ago — these are not necessarily full “reads”. This average has grown to 110 article views a day over the last 30 days. On May 11th we had 236 views, which was the highest for that period.
An average of 52 visitors a day visited TGx over the past 3 months. This means each visitor looked at an average of about 2 articles. This grew significantly to 70 visitors a day for the last 30 days of those 3 months. But they are not looking at as many articles per visit. That is probably because many are only looking for new articles, having seen the older articles already.
You can see that there are a lot of ups and downs in this chart. These mostly reflect when new articles are published and announced.
We have published 23 full articles to date. We have also published 6 short “information” articles and 9 “news” articles about Tourism Geographic and Tourism Geographies. And there is the “Welcome and Guidelines” article, which has been updated many times since it was first published.
Individual Article Stats
Medium also provides statistics on individual articles. These are difficult to compare because some have been online since the start of our soft launch, while others were just published this past week.
The following articles seem to be the highlights to date. They are ranked based on:
— First: 400 or more Views (how many people opened the article),
— Second: 40 or more Reads (estimate of how many people read the entire article), and
— Third: 6 or more Fans (how many Medium subscribers “clapped” for the article.
For all of these numbers, the longer the article has been published the higher the numbers will be.
- Post-Pandemic Travel: The Trends We’ll See When the World Opens up Again by Katerina Antoniou [858 views; 144 reads; 2 Fans] — republished from The Conversation
- Local “Resident Tourists” in Johannesburg, South Africa by Daniel Hammett and Gijsbert Hoogendoorn [428 views; 54 reads; 3 Fans]
- How to Find the Desert’s Rhythm in Oman by Manuela Gutberlet [422 views; 61 reads; 4 Fans]
- We Travel Because It Expands Our Global Consciousness by Alan A. Lew [410 views; 30 reads; 7 Fans]
- How Elephants Pay for School Fees: Wildlife Tourism in The Zambezi Region by Linus Kalvelage, Javier Revilla Diez, & Michael Bollig[410 views; 56 reads; 5 Fans]
- Crossing the Border: Travel & Tourism Challenges for Ceuta, a Eurafrican Pene-Exclave by Ioulia Poulaki and Andreas Papatheodorou [260 views; 59 reads; 7 Fans]
- Conflicted Histories and Dark Heritage in Kazakhstan’s Gulags by Guillaume Tiberghien and J. John Lennon [222 views; 45 reads; 4 Fans]
- Opportunities for Sustainable Wellness Tourism in a Post-Pandemic World by Jaeyeon Choe & Michael Di Giovine [327 views; 40 reads; 5 Fans] — republished from The Conversation
- Tourism, Power & the Value of Place in Pisac, Peru by Rosa Codina, Peter Lugosi, & David Bowen [239 views; 34 reads; 6 Fans]
- The Power of Religious Pilgrimage in India by Kiran Shinde [134 views; 28 reads; 6 Fans]
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