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143-154_TOU-099245.qxd 2/20/2009 12:02 PM Page 143 article ts tourist studies sage publications Los Angeles, London, Olivier Evrard and Anne Doquet New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC Centre d’Etudes Africaines, Chiang Mai University,Thailand vol 8(2) 143-153 DOI: 10.1177/ www.sagepublications.com This issue of Tourist Studies was born out of a meeting, and out a question raised by that meeting. In October 2006, Anne Doquet and Olivier Evrard organized two study days at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Institute of Research for Development – IRD) in Paris, entitled ‘Tourism, mobility and the commodification of identities’. The idea was to bring together researchers from different social science disciplines (mainly anthropologists, but also sociologists, geographers and historians) to explore the role of tourism in modern issues of identity. The organizers were lucky to be able to welcome two Anglo-Saxon sociologists, Adrian Franklin and John Hutnyk, but they had more difficulty in identifying and gathering a sufficient number of French researchers with long experience of working on this theme. Admittedly, these difficulties were partly due to problems of availability, notably for two recognized French specialists on tourism, Jean-Didier Urbain and Michel Picard (see their contributions in this issue). A growing number of young
Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE
Published: Aug 1, 2008
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