TABLE OF CONTENTS As tourism continues to expand its role as the world s largest industry, it also encourages the proliferation of academic research focused both on highly specific segments and impacts of tourism, and on the larger philosophical implications of this phenomenon. Tourism dramatically influences the entire range of economic, cultural, environmental, and even political values that in some combination constitute the modern world.
Coles, Duval and Hall (Chapter 24) propose that tourism, as an established field of academic enquiry has been conspicuously absent from recent discipline-based efforts toward understanding the range of mobilities prevalent in globalised environments, and in large measure has failed to embrace similar levels of theory building. While there is considerable lateral movement to tourism, there is a lack of vertical theoretical integration with wider perspectives of mobility.
The purposes of this chapter are first, to examine and draw out existing conceptual linkages between tourism and temporary mobilities. As such, tourism is presented as a temporary form of mobility, and is therefore roughly analogous in both scope and meaning to other forms of movement such as travel to second homes, return migration and emigration. Second, a more grounded approach in the chapter is to survey forms...
