Mapping a critical framework for the study of travel journalism

1 June 2001

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Cultural Studies

Vol. 4 (2), 149-171
https://doi.org/10.1177/136787790100400202

Abstract

This article provides a programmatic framework for the investigation of travel journalism. We argue that travel journalism is an important site for studying the ideological dimensions of tourism, transcultural encounters and the ongoing dynamics of media globalization. Based on the literature on tourism in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, we identify three distinct but interrelated theoretical perspectives for the analysis of travel journalism structured by issues of periodization, power and phenomenology.

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