Sectoral economic geography studies the characteristics and processes of the layout of the social and economic sectors and the spatial organization and spatial structure of economic geography, such as industrial geography, agricultural geography, traffic geography and business geography. Tourism geography is a component of tourism economics that focuses on the characteristics and processes of tourism patterns and their spatial organization. Sectoral economic geography is a subsidiary or component of economic geography.
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(2020). Sectoral Economic Geography. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_2180
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