ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the framing tourism as performances of places opens up places to new and multiple ideologies that problematize their pasts in constructive ways by keeping them continually present. Surveying the tourism literature, it has come to our attention that despite increased scholarly attention to tourism, there remains a persistent divide in ways researchers approach this phenomenon focusing on either the tourism site or tourist experience. Authenticity, as a multi-faceted concept objective, constructive, postmodern, existential does inform tourist motivation; it shapes expectations of place, and thereby, is influential to touristic experience. Authenticity is also used among tourism practitioners and informs the development and marketing of tourism sites. Advocating mobilities turn suggests tourism is more usefully considered in the context of other movement-based concepts. Situating tourism within a mobilities paradigm and attending to the politics of mobility thus better articulates the nuances of newly-identified tourism mobilities.
