Franklin A. Tourism. An introduction

SAGE Publications, 2003. — 312 p.
Tourism research will not solve some of the older debates and and a master theory of tourism because tourism, like the cultures that give rise to it, is a moving target. The metaphor of mobility for contemporary societies inspired a recent book by John Urry that overturns the older solid relations between home and away, the workaday and the holiday. Sociology Beyond Societies ± Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2000) should inspire fresh evaluations of tourism. Equally, Bauman's Liquid Modernity (Cambridge: Polity, 2000) provides an excellent theoretical account of contemporary times and an inspiring framework for thinking about tourism. I have also found Jervis's two books Exploring the Modern (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) and Transgressing the Modern (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) to be full of connections between tourism and contemporary culture.Introduction
Questions and Scope
What Is Tourism?
The Foundations and Traces of Modern Tourism
Elaborations of Tourism
Objects and Rituals
Tourist Objects, Tourist Rituals
Objects and Rituals of Seaside
Objects and Rituals of Heritage
The Embodied Tourist
Tourisms of Body and Nature
Sex and TourismA World of Tourism