Abstract
Tourism studies in sociocultural science flourished after the 1990s, as influenced by the interdisciplinary trend of the “cultural/spatial turn.” The first half of this paper discusses the features of tourism studies inspired by this tendency. The latter half considers new trends in tourism studies influenced by a shift in perspective of cultural/spatial theory after the late 1990s. With reference to the two discussions, this paper will then finally consider the significance and potential of tourism studies by focusing on the features of “mobility,” “encounter,” and “betweenness.”
