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INTRODUCTION
Tourism Social Science
Nelson H. H. Graburn
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jafar Jafari
University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Mankind has always traveled, but only the early civilizations in the
Middle East, Asia, and the Mediterranean left written records of their
experiences. These records show that as Greece, Rome, and China
expanded for trade and conquest, their upper classes often traveled for
pleasure or diplomacy. Some, such as Herodotus, wrote about travel-
ing and sojourns, much as one might today. This long tradition of
dmriptiue humanistic literature tells of the art and psychology of travel,
and strangers and their manners, languages, religions, gift giving,
lodging, and hospitality.
The Age of Expansion and Exploration, by Arabs (800 AD on) and
Europeans, such as Marco Polo (1200 AD on), left many travel ac-
counts. Japanese travelers from the Edo period, such as the poet Bas-
sho, wrote memoirs which still serve as cguides for today’s tourists in
Japan. However, until the fifteenth century, most tourism was not for
sightseeing, but to encounter important people and civilizations and to
visit sacred places (Adler 1989).
From the fifteenth century, European expansion was enhanced by
cartographic and sailing technologies, and the rise of the merchant
classes, while travel documents multiplied through the newly invented
printing press. According to these documents, from the mid-sixteenth
century onwards, Northern Europeans regularly traveled to spas in
their own countries, to centers of learning and to the ruins of the great
classical civilizations of southern Europe. At first confined to nobles
and diplomats, this circuit became commonplace. It became known as
the tour by the mid 17OOs, and soon, according to the 1989 edition of the
Oxford English Dictionary, the term tourist was coined to describe par-
ticipants in such pleasurable, educational journeys.
Taking two to three years at first, the tour gradually shortened as the
number of tourists grew. The tourist (usually a young man) was accom-
panied by a tutor, and many of them wrote about their travels in
memoirs, travelogues, or guide books. These were literary as well as
descriptive and educational works, perhaps best exemplified by
Goethe’s descriptions of Italy in 1786-88.
The records further show that in the nineteenth century, the Indus-
trial Revolution and the social revolutions of imperialism, evangelism,
and socialism brought vast social changes. Thomas Cook, an English
Methodist reformer, used steam trains to take the urban poor to the
countryside and to expositions and rallies. Seeing the commercial pos-
sibilities of mass tourism, he is credited for inaugurating the modern
tourist industry: travel agencies, reserved seats, booking hotels. accom-
modations classification, travelers’ cheques, timetables, and compre-
hensive guidebooks. Mass tourism became an international enterprise.
perhaps best described in Mark Twain’s 1869 parody Innocents Abroad.
This age of scientific progress, increased record-keeping, and the de-
mocratization of institutions emancipated the bourgoisie both for lei-
sure and travel and the organized pursuit of knowledge (see Towner
and Wall).
This Special Issue shows each of the narrow disciplines’ other ways of
approaching tourism to stimulate more cross- and multidisciplinary
research.
However, the tradition of humanistic travel literature was kept alive
by the elite, who traveled ever further to avoid the new mass tourists in
Europe and North America. World War I put an end to the power of
the aristocracy and brought about a new revolution in tourism- the
appreciation of nature in the face of rapid industrialization. Sun-
bathing, indeed sea bathing itself, became popular, along with moun-
taineering, hiking, skiing, and boating, trends which have continued to
the present day.
At this time, much of the scholarship on tourism was historical,
concerning itself with grand tourism or the fortunes of particular re-
sorts. Historians were the main contributors, as exemplified by the
works on the Romans, on the Grand Tour, on Niagara Falls (Towner
and Wall) or on seventeenth century England (Parkes 1925). This his-
torical research, often neglected by other social scientists, continued
well into the 196Os, focusing either on case studies of resorts and spas
(e.g., on Coney Island) or on broad topics such as resorts in general,
the Romans, the English and the Grand Tour (Fairburn 1951; Hibbert
1969; Trease 1967), or even the whole history of recreation and tourism
(Duchet 1949; Sigaux 1966).
It was not until the 1930s that other disciplines began to make contri-
butions. One theme, in leisure and recreation studies, was the histori-
cal and ideological nature of leisure (Smith and Godbey). Geographers
produced serious but descriptive works on both domestic tourism,
stemming from the growth of automobile usage, and on overseas tour-
ism (Mitchell and Murphy). In North America, pioneer works includ-
ed Ogilvie (1933), Geogmphzkf Review (1936), and Eiselen (1945). Even-
tually Smith (1953) argued the need to teach courses in this field. In
Europe, especially Germany, research expanded with the founding of
Archiv fuer Fremdenverkehr in 1930, and the ensuing works of Poser (1939)
and Christaller (1955).
In the decades following World War II, most tourism research func-
tioned as an instrument for development, particularly in the post-
colonial nations. The expansion of overseas travel was boosted by the
introduction of jet travel in 1952. North American research focused on
domestic tourism (e.g., Alexander 1953), or on the nation’s Hispanic
sphere of influence (e.g., Eiselen 1955; Mings 1969). Most research
was left to planners and economists, many of whom worked for organi-
zations such as the United Nations (Krapf 1963), the World Bank, and
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Pouris
1963), but with some exceptions (e.g., Carone 1959). The European
periodical, Revue de Tourisme/Zeitschrift fuer Frema!envedehr/The Tourist Re-
view (founded 1946) attested to growing French as well as German
research interests.
In the 196Os, the benefits of tourism were unquestioned. Research
assumed that tourism was a labor intensive growth industry, beneficial
4 INTRODUCTION
Several factors are unique to this Special Issue. First, all papers were
invited. Due to the intended scope and nature of the theme, certain
topics had to be included; an open submission system would have
risked omitting contributions on some of them. Second, the invitations
were only extended to the editors of the journal. Since they are among
the leaders in their respective fields, it was only natural to take this
“short-cut” and turn to those who have made Annals the leading journal
in the field of tourism (Sheldon 1990). Moreover, this allowed the
journal to publish its first “in-house” special issue.
Third, while multidisciplinary perspectives on a given theme were
offered in previous special issues, the “multidisciplinarity” of tourism is
the very design of this Special Issue. No single discipline alone can
accommodate, treat, or understand tourism; it can be studied only if
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