Borders and tourism: dynamic relations, mobilities and the touristic other

Dallen J. Timothy

Chapter 11 in Border Studies, 2025, pp 203-223 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Through their dynamic processes of bordering, debordering and rebordering, international boundaries affect many sociocultural and economic activities in the borderlands. One of the most border-affected economic sectors and social phenomena is tourism, which manifests in many unique ways in border spaces, including borders as tourist attractions and destinations, borders as barrier to travel and the development of tourism, borders as spaces and lines of transit, and borders as modifiers of tourism landscapes and tourism as a transformer of border landscapes. From the perspectives of bordering, debordering, and rebordering, this chapter examines the traditional relationships between tourism and political borders, which largely see borders as unchangeable lines of separation. In addition, the chapter delves more deeply into new ways of seeing borders from a tourism perspective as spaces of integration, cooperation, and dynamic change, usually manifested through transfrontier cooperation, supranationalism, partnerships, and policy changes. Finally, it discusses how, in light of global securitization and the recent pandemic, current rebordering also affects tourism development and cross-boundary human mobility for touristic and other purposes.

Keywords: Bordering; Rebordering; Debordering; Tourism; Securitization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800375383
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