Issues of location have become a major interest of a number of different disciplines in recent years. Long held to be automatic components of geography, place and space have, for instance, become a focus of marketing, in terms of regional branding and image; management and business studies, with respect to the embeddedness of firms in place and the development of clusters and networks; sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, with respect to spatial practices and performances; as well as, of course, tourism studies with its fascination for destinations. However, matters of location and place cannot be isolated from the relations and linkages between spaces and hence the associated mobilities of capital, people, ideas and images.
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