Abstract

Jithendran Kokkranikal, Alastair M. Morrison and Vanessa Gowreesunkar India’s incredible cities: anticipating the future, respecting the past tourism in Indian Jithendran Kokkranikal and cities: special issue editorial Alastair M. Morrison are both based at the The mission of the International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA) is to encourage University of Greenwich, interaction and cooperation between members in developing and developed countries. London, UK. Essentially, part of this mission means providing more venues and opportunities for scholars Vanessa Gowreesunkar is in developing countries to present and publish their research and to engage with academics based at the University of from more developed nations. As the owner of the International Journal of Tourism Cities Africa, Bayelsa State, (IJTC), ITSA and the IJTC Co-Editors-in-Chief envisaged a series of Special Issues with a Yenagoa, Nigeria. focus on urban tourism and tourism cities in the developing world. Tourism in Indian cities is the first in the series and will be followed later by Contemporary trends, issues and challenges in Southeast Asia Tourism Cities. More will come in the future. Cities are places where economic and industrial activities are concentrated in a defined area that facilitate production and consumption of goods and services (Page and Connell,