Diaspora Humanities Series, Vol. 11
This book philosophically, historically, geographically, and socially explores the emergence and prospects of post-tourism, a paradigm that seeks to overcome the dichotomous assumptions on traditional tourist behavior and tourism spaces. What is post-tourism? It refers to a trend in which new tourists, who are equipped with information and communication technologies and enhanced mobility, reconfigure tourism spaces in fluid, hybrid, and heterogeneous ways.
Post-tourism moves beyond the conventional framework of tourism studies that has interpreted tourism as a place-based activity bounded by spatial limits. Instead, it approaches tourism diachronically as the outcome produced by the movement of diverse fluid elements in the age of mobility.
Accordingly, post-tourism can be understood as both a de-touristic and pro-everyday phenomenon. It redefines the mechanisms of production and consumption in tourism spaces and calls into question the boundary between tourism and everyday life. Above all, the increase in individualized travel in the post-COVID era, following the official end of the pandemic, suggests that this is a timely moment for engaging in discussions of post-tourism.