Reconstructing the globalisation of tourism: A geo-historical perspective

Andreea Antonescu (1) , Mathis Stock (2)

1 Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le Tourisme (CRIT)
2 IUKB - Equipe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le Tourisme

The globalisation of tourism raises serious methodological and theoretical problems due to the lack of data needed to understand this phenomenon. We attempt to construct solid historical sources to trace the development of tourism for 200 years and to obtain a cartographic view of the phenomenon. In this article, we propose a methodology in order to construct a data set on the globalisation of tourism. To achieve this, we rely on tourist guidebooks published since 1800, which are exploited from the perspective of the mentioned tourist places. It is a geo-historical approach insofar as the chosen entry concerns tourist places for which a date is necessary in order to understand the globalisation of tourism.

Mots clés: Globalisation; tourism; tourist places; methodology; guide books

Domaines: Géographie

Andreea Antonescu, Mathis Stock. Reconstructing the globalisation of tourism: A geo-historical perspective. Annals of Tourism Research, 2014, 45C (1), pp.77-88. ⟨10.1016/j.annals.2013.12.001⟩. ⟨hal-00716824⟩