Abstract

SAMPAIO, Sofia. Studying tourism today: towards a critical review of tourism studies. Etnográfica [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.1, pp.167-182. ISSN 0873-6561.

The article takes the publication, in 2009, of The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies and The Sociology of Tourism: European Origins and Developments - two anthologies that review how tourism has been studied in the social sciences - as an opportunity to discuss the traditions represented and defended in each of these books, namely: a transatlantic Anglophone tradition, and a European continental one. Some of the main tendencies are identified, so as to propose, in the end, the “rematerialization” of tourism studies through the adoption of a local point of view that focuses on the practices, but is also sensitive to the asymmetries that are visible (or not) from the ground.

Keywords : tourism studies; critical review; Anglophone tradition; European tradition.

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