Tourism as a subject of philosophical reflection

Abstract

Tourism is attracting ever‐growing attention from different scientific disciplines ‐ psychology, sociology, economics, geography etc. whose adherents each wish to study its phenomena from their own specific disciplinary viewpoint. Moreover, a young scientific discipline called tourismology is also developing, aspiring to provide an integrated and systematic approach to tourism. However, when the question is asked about the purpose and raison d'tre of tourism, as it would about any other human activity, or even about life itself, we unavoidably leave the realm of pure science and enter the ambivalent world of philosophy. When and where tourism is concerned, in the field of philosophy, we find a big void because, in contrast to numerous and diverse other scientific studies, the philosophical approach to tourism is practically non‐existant.

Citation

Comic, D.K. and Beograd (1989), "Tourism as a subject of philosophical reflection", The Tourist Review, Vol. 44 No. 2, pp. 6-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058016