Tourist industry and migration

Abstract

International migration and tourism have many things in common. For starters, both involve imaginaries about the world around us and involve explorations of new horizons in the most literal sense. In addition, both are forms of human mobility and are consequently subjected to a wide array of national or international rules and regulations. Finally, after landing, a host of, what we can label, integration issues may emerge: uprootedness, cultural misunderstandings, and even racism and exploitation, but there are also new political and economic opportunities, novel ways to interact with others, and the expansion of one’s cultural horizons.