ABSTRACT
In this chapter I shall theorize the relation between tourism, materiality and space by introducing a new way of looking at and researching tourism. This account is positioned within an emerging new school of tourism studies. Tourism academics now increasingly follow the lead of the social sciences and move into what Tribe (2005, p. 5) terms ‘new’ tourism research pointing out that:
the totality of tourism studies has now developed beyond the narrow boundaries of an applied business field and has the characteristics of a fledging post-modern field of research
