Tourism as practice

Marcelo de Souza Bispo

Annals of Tourism Research, 2016, vol. 61, issue C, 170-179

Abstract: The goal of this article is to (re)theorize tourism from a practice-based perspective by introducing the notion of “tourism as practice”. It aims to familiarize newcomers with different theories of practice and their current connections and future perspectives for tourism research. The paper is a theoretical endeavor supported by an epistemology of practice and empirical works that use practice theories to understand the nature of tourism. I advocate that tourism is a set of organizing practices wherein concepts such as “home” and “away”, “tourist” and “non-tourist”, may not be seen as dualisms but as part of a plenum. Tourism as practice also holds that mobility and performativity are not two distinct “paradigms” but rather core elements of tourism’s practices.

Keywords: Tourism as practice; Performativity; Social practice; Mobility; Organizing; Tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2016.10.009

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