By G. Dann

At the moment there's ample proof of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism through teachers from the English-speaking international, a state of affairs that looks to be aided and abetted via the publishers of books and articles in that language. This quantity is the 1st try out of its variety to familiarise readers within the US, united kingdom, Australia and the English conversing areas of Africa and Asia with such evolutionary pondering. In the sort of demeanour, additionally, will probably be attainable to parent, contextualize and higher take pleasure in the ecu roots of next theorising within the Anglophone international, thereby permitting a extra actual overview of its hitherto unchallenged claims to originality.

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A trace of this central European heritage can be found in the former Yugoslavia, where Jovicˇic´ was a supporter of this conceptualization with his discussed Turizmologija (1972) and there was even a chair of tourismology at the university of Belgrade for two decades (Vukonic´ in this volume). Yet, in spite of their Swiss matrix, Krippendorf and Mu¨ller are against a proper tourismology (tourist science) since they argue that tourism, like any other applied science should acknowledge the epistemological contributions of other fields of knowledge (Krippendorf 1997; Mu¨ller 2002).

Around this time also, there appeared a special issue of the journal, Communications, and with it, some extremely interesting, though surprisingly neglected reflections by the likes of Burgelin (1967) and Gritti (1967) on the notion of tourism as an agent of social control (Dann 1996a). A few years later, in 1975, she was appointed charge´e, and with the responsibility came the opportunities for assembling Setting the Scene 35 her own research team, this time in the field of tourism, which in 1976 became known as the Unite´ de Recherche en la Sociologie du Tourisme International (URESTI) (Unit for Research on the Sociology of Tourism).

In this book, notwithstanding those sections devoted to the economics and politics of tourism, there was an explicitly sociological chapter dealing with the effects of tourism. Here relationships and potential international approaches played a significant role. There was also an important attempt to explore the customarily neglected topic of motivation. In the framework of ‘‘relationships’’ attention was paid not only to tourists and locals, but also to places of origin and to tourist destinations.

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