Chapter 2 - Tourism's place within international relations

Abstract

If the literature on tourism emanating from departments of tourism studies, and others like economics, geography and sociology that offer courses on tourism, has been growing exponentially, consideration of the phenomenon within the fields of political science and international relations (IR) has been sadly lacking. Yet, as Hall (1994: 59) has rightly noted ‘By its increasingly international nature, tourism is inseparable from the field of international relations’.