The various ways in which peoples and places around the globe are represented and documented in popular media have an immense impact on how tourists imagine and anticipate future destinations. Even though tourism discourses take a variety of forms, visual imagery seems to have the biggest...

Based on long-term fieldwork in Indonesia and Tanzania, this article sheds new light on the contested relationship between tourism and cosmopolitanism. The ethnographic findings shift the attention from tourists to key service providers as those accruing most cosmopolitan capital through the...

This article analyzes Chinese seasonal tourists, whose cultural practices originate from and provide new meaning to traditional Chinese elite culture. We place contemporary seasonal lifestyle tourism in China in its broader socio-historical context and describe how recent political changes have...

In order to remain competitive, travel destinations worldwide have to adapt themselves continuously to rapidly changing tourist preferences and consumer patterns. This involves (re)creating a distinctive local identity, attractive for the targeted markets, and ensuring that the provided goods...

Natural and cultural heritage destinations worldwide are adapting themselves to the homogenizing corporate culture of the global tourism industry at the same time as trying to maintain, or even increase, their local distinctiveness. While local and national tourism authorities and travel...

At the roots of many travels to distant destinations, whether in the context of tourism or migration, are historically laden and socioculturally constructed imaginaries. People worldwide rely on such imaginaries, from the most spectacular fantasies to the most mundane reveries, to shape...