{"title":"Security, economy, and the touristification of borders","authors":"Xiaobo Su","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103734","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Due to large flows of cross-border tourists and their increasing geopolitical and geoeconomic influence, borders have become increasingly touristified. Entailing at least three impulses—commodification, desecuritization, and differentiation, the touristification of borders develops a nuanced understanding of borderscapes and bordering practices. Borders obtain new meanings and functions from a touristic perspective. Tourism as an epistemic frame means that it is not merely a set of economic activities related to the production and consumption of experiences, but also constitutes a perspective through which to explore issues concerning borders as a key space of geoeconomic and geopolitical interactions. Thus, the touristification of borders brings tourism scholars into productive conversations with scholars in other critical studies who investigate the interplay of mobility and power.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324000112","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Due to large flows of cross-border tourists and their increasing geopolitical and geoeconomic influence, borders have become increasingly touristified. Entailing at least three impulses—commodification, desecuritization, and differentiation, the touristification of borders develops a nuanced understanding of borderscapes and bordering practices. Borders obtain new meanings and functions from a touristic perspective. Tourism as an epistemic frame means that it is not merely a set of economic activities related to the production and consumption of experiences, but also constitutes a perspective through which to explore issues concerning borders as a key space of geoeconomic and geopolitical interactions. Thus, the touristification of borders brings tourism scholars into productive conversations with scholars in other critical studies who investigate the interplay of mobility and power.
期刊介绍:
The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.