ABSTRACT
Writing as a sociologist, one of the more interesting features of tourism studies over recent years has been the way in which social theory has fi ltered through the social sciences, art and humanities and been adapted by both geographers and tourism analysts; and while they were beginning to grapple with culture, other social scientists were similarly beginning to grapple with the conceptualisation and uses of space in social thought. All were seeking to account for the rapid changes in the global political economy and the consequent reordering of the spatial hierarchy resulting from globalisation.
