Just published: Tourism and the Metropolis

Tourism and the Metropolis: Exploring Conceptual and Geographical Frontiers, co-edited with Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, and Maja Jović, has just been published by University of Westminster Press.

The starting point for this volume is a paradox that struck all four of us editors: urban tourism has become a well-established field of inquiry, yet metropolises – despite being among the world's most-visited places – have received remarkably little systematic scholarly attention, and the specific relationships between tourism and metropolitan environments remain largely unexamined.

This volume sets out to address that gap directly. Drawing on a diverse set of case studies, the book examines how tourism shapes – and is shaped by – metropolitan conditions, and probes whether metropolitan tourism is qualitatively distinct from urban tourism in terms of its scale, density, diversity and complexity.

This book would not have happened without Maja Jović, Maria Gravari-Barbas and Sébastien Jacquot; it is open access — free to read and download — and I hope it will open up new conversations and inspire further research in this field.