The production of tourism concepts

Introduction Since the end of the 1960s, the field of tourism studies has been lulled by a long and painful lament that underlines the lack of theoretical ambition and the disciplinary dispersion of the field of study, which contributes to its lack of scientific visibility and, as J. Tribe (1997) puts it, to its indiscipline. In the introductory article of the first issue of the journal Tourism Studies, A. Franklin and M. Crang (2001, p.5) draw a clear conclusion in this respect. While stres...