The reflexive journal: Inside the black box

Conceptual research in tourism

“…This is not to say that conceptual research doesn't exist in tourism. Tribe, Xiao and Chambers (2012) point to a 15% contribution of conceptual/review articles to Annals of Tourism Research in 2011Research in -2012. Similarly a number of tourism concepts roll readily off the tongue, including mobilities, dark tourism and authenticity.…”

Sacrilisation of secular pilgrimages as archetypal transformational journeys: advancing theory through emic and etic interpretations

“…While the Pilgrimage is neither initiated nor sanctioned by an established religious faith, church, order or denomination, participation sustains a sacred religious context and pilgrimage process (Sharpley and Jepson, 2011;Tribe et al, 2012) in which the Pilgrimage is enacted. JEG and other pilgrims describe the scope of the Pilgrimage as follows:…”

Philosophical Texts on Travels: Chronicles and Testimonies of Travellers

“…Some experts envisage self-ethnographies as a valid instrument of research (Borm, 2000;White and White, 2007;Miller, 2008;Tribe et al, 2012;Peters, 2013), while others cuts the difference between ethnological travels and tourism. While the former is a real movement where traveller looks to meet the other, tourism seems to be an alienated activity that keeps a great psychological distance between guests and hosts (Augé, 1998b;Ingold, 2000;Urry, 2002;Maccannell, 2003) The paradox lies in the fact that modern travellers (tourists) demand an authenticity which not only does not exist, but also needs from a copy to persist.…”