ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter revisits the major themes, concepts, and theories developed throughout the book by its various authors. It draws out the conceptual implications of the previous 29 chapters and reviews the multitudinous border-tourism relationships. Although most of the traditional patterns of border-tourism relationships still exist, rapid changes in globalization, debordering, rebordering, transfrontier networking, and other geopolitical forces shed deeper light on borders and tourism. The authors look at the complex relationships between international boundaries and tourism through the lenses of past–present relationships, conflict–peace processes, processes of borderlessness and placelessness, transfrontier cooperation, marginality and peripherality, and the global pandemic. Each of these has salient implications for tourism in terms of how it develops, how borderlands appeal to tourists or dissuade them from visiting, and how they grow physically into sustainable tourism destinations.
