ABSTRACT
Regionalization is one of the major characteristics of international tourism. The regional trade agreements, the natural tendency of business and trade flows to generate proximity networks, trade policies of liberalization, convergence and the complementarity of production and consumption patterns manifested rather at the intra-regional level, are just some of the factors that maintain a high degree of regionalization of tourism globally, despite a process of spatial dispersion. This paper includes a comparative analysis of the dynamics of these regionalization processes between 1980 and 2019 and looks at the impact that different shocks have had on the dynamics of international tourism and the transformation of tourism geography. The paper thus deepens the knowledge of the regionalization processes integrating the perspective of the tourist sector's resilience with relevance for tourism-led growth policies.