Exploring explorers, travellers, and tourists: digital humanities approaches in North America and the United Kingdom

Abstract

Case studies in Britain, Canada, and the United States illustrate the wide range of projects using tools and techniques associated with the digital humanities that are expanding the scope and scale of enquiry in tourism and travel histories. Discussions about their research programmes with key figures associated with the development of these tools reveal a set of common interests, ambitions, and limitations, as well as ways in which digital humanities approaches can be incorporated profitably within projects to advance theoretical paradigms, related to spatialities and post-colonial studies, for instance.

Keywords

• travel
• exploration
• tourism
• mapping
• landscapes
• distant reading