In collaboration with the Asia Diaspora Institute, the Mobility Humanities held an academic conference under the theme of “Tourism Space and Post-Tourism”
Starting with the opening speech of Shin In-Seop, director of the Mobility Humanities, and a greeting from Jung EunHye, director of Asia Diaspora Institute, presentations and discussions continued under the themes of “Reinterpretation of Modern Tourism Space” and “Post-Tourism.”
In the first part of the conference, Kim JI-Young (Kongju National University) tracked the formation of mountain tourism and Jiri Mountain space from the 1920s to the 1960s under the theme of “Jiri Mountain Tourist Space in the Process of Forming Modern Mountain Culture and Tourism.” Lee Se-Yoon (Jeongwha Arts College) and Kwak Yeon-Kyung (Chodang University) suggested reinterpreting the painful historical place of Jeju Island from the
perspective of peace from tourism in “Jeju, Space for Peace.”
In the second part, Jang Yoon Jung (Seoul National University) presented the trend of tourism
that changed through the media during the pandemic in “Growth of Media-Induced Travel Influenced Post-Tourism).” Kim Ju-Rak (Konkuk University), Choi Suh-Hee (Kyunghee University), and Jang Hae-Ri (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements)
paid attention to the post-tourism of marriage migrant women with a dual identity as hosts and guests
in “The Implication of Vietnamese Marriage Migrant Women’s VFR Experience in Post-Tourism.”
In this conference, which was conducted online using Zoom, researchers discussed the formation of tourism and post-tourism as a post-touristic and everyday phenomenon beyond those of the tourism industry.
In particular, as the boundaries were broken down and movement was restricted, it became a place to explore diversified and reconstructed tourism spaces and tourism.