Abstract

This book consists of a number of extended essays by a selection of active researchers currently immersed in the analysis of tourist retail environments and behaviour as a psychogeographic field of study in its focus upon leisured promenading attractions and satisfactions. It thus stands as a 'taster' approach, to entertain and deepen - or possibly convert the interested reader to - a personal enthusiasm for exploration of the topic. Amongst the common subject foci that may be perceived across the contributions is a combined interest in the consumer-based 'magnetic' attractiveness of various retail forms and formations offering fields or détournement that are covered in both economic and humanistic terms – that may encourage flâneur or dérive behaviours - rather than taking an alternative operational or organisational approach, as may be more common in generic retail research. There are also evident interests across the content in historical developments in space, place and behaviours within leisure, entertainment and recreational shopping - big shop and little shop, temporal and permanent, new world and old - that may be of interest to the more general reader, including tourist, leisure, event and retail students, as an accessible 'way in' to the subject area.