Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of
transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What
is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole,
remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in
the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these
themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon
describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a
supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in
terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field
can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there
have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the
issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The
opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of
transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing
together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers,
philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary
scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it
means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In
doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives -
including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants,
refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and
cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that
has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western
literature.
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