DOI: 10.5176/2251-3426_THoR1222
Authors: Patricia Johnson
Abstract: Cosmopolitanism has been studied from a number of scholarly perspectives as an idea, a notion, an ideology, a process, a condition of globalisation, a site of cultural contestation and a disposition. Despite obvious links to tourism, in areas such as mobility, cultural interaction, visitor experience, and destination image (to name a few) the study of cosmopolitanism has only recently begun to emerge in tourism research. Cosmopolitanism, like tourism, is a ‘condition’ of globalisation. Cosmopolitanism assumes conversancy in other cultures while maintaining a level of reflexivity about one’s own, and tourism is an ideal environment to study the topic. This research paper reports on the initial stages of making inroads into rendering a useful conceptual tool that can be applied to study the workings of cosmopolitanism in tourism contexts.
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