ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a rationale for the book and highlights the influence of anthropology for exploring the relationship between tourism and embodiment, where embodiment is understood as a way of understanding culture and the self in relation to practices of movement, thinking and sensing. The chapter offers empirical and conceptual insights to underpin the book’s aim to provide a theoretical stimulus to the sub-discipline of tourism anthropology. This aim illustrates the overall purpose of the book, which is to start a conversation about the relationship between tourism and embodiment. A conversation that we hope will become an ongoing dialogue with, through and about the body, embodiment and tourism.
