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Tourist Studies

Tourist Studies

An International Journal
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eISSN: 17413206 | ISSN: 14687976 | Current volume: 24 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: Quarterly

Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens.

Theoretical and multi-disciplinary

Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism.

The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology.

Global Perspective

Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature.

Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.

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Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens.

Theoretical and multi-disciplinary

Tourist Studies
provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism.

The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology.

Global Perspective

Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature.

Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.

Editors
Susan E. Frohlick University of British Columbia, Canada
Chin Ee Ong Macao University of Tourism, China
Editor Emeritus
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle, UK
Tim Edensor Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Gordon Watt University of Woolongong, Australia
Editorial Assistant
Nassim Zand Dizari University of British Columbia, Canada
Founding Editors
Mike Crang University of Durham, UK
Adrian Franklin University of South Australia, Australia
Editorial Board
Yaniv Belhassen Ben Gurion University, Israel
David Bissell University of Melbourne, Australia
Dorina Maria Buda Nottingham Trent University, UK
Margaret Byrne Swain Institute of Governmental Affairs/University of California, Davis, USA
Carl Cater University of Swansea, UK
Erik Cohen Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Noga Collins-Kriener University of Haifa, Israel
David Crouch University of Derby, UK
Glen Croy Monash University, Australia
Anna De Jong University of Glasgow, UK
Phoebe Everingham University of Newcastle, Australia
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong, Australia
Szilvia Gyimóthy Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Kevin Hannam City University of Macau, China
Kirsten Holmes Curtin University, Australia
Edward Huijbens Wageningen University, Netherlands
Jonas Larsen University of Roskilde, Denmark
Jo-Anne Lester University of Brighton, UK
Peter Lugosi Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dean MacCannell University of California, Davis, USA
Churnjeet Mahn University of Strathclyde, UK
Judith Mair University of Queensland, Australia
Claudio Minca Wageningen University; Royal Holloway, Netherlands
Jennie Germann Molz College of the Holy Cross, USA
Nigel Morgan University of Surrey, UK
Chaim Noy Bar Ilan University, Israel
Tom van Nuenen Kings College London, UK
Michael O'Regan University of Bournemouth, UK
Pau Obrador Pons Northumbria University, UK
Tijana Rakic University of Brighton, UK
Carina Ren Aalborg University, Denmark
Greg Richards Tilburg University, Netherlands
Jillian Rickly University of Nottingham, UK
Chris Rojek City, University of London, UK
Chris Ryan University of Waikato, New Zealand
Tom Selwyn University of North London, UK
Hazel Tucker University of Otago, New Zealand
Peter Varley Northumbria University, UK
Elizabeth Vidon SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA
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