 Patrick Pietropoli, "Les Photographes," terra cotta, circa 1995. The Tourism Studies Working Group was founded in the spring of 2003 by a small group of graduate students at UC Berkeley. It has since grown into an interdisciplinary network of more than 50 scholars throughout Northern California. In addition, the Working Group has established productive ties with similar research groups in England, Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and Brazil. The Tourism Studies Working Group provides a forum in which faculty and graduate students from a wide range of disciplines can exchange ideas, circulate and/or informally present works in progress, hear from visiting scholars, and receive feedback on their research. Rather than a discipline in its own right, we see tourism studies as a node at which numerous disciplines intersect and cross-fertilize. We hope to promote and sustain a multidisciplinary approach to tourism so as to enrich the academic discourse on tourism and travel as objects of study on the Berkeley campus and beyond. In addition to its regular colloquium series, over the past four years the Tourism Studies Working Group has hosted a number of symposia (e.g., Examining Tourism in Southern Africa, 2008, and States of Tourism, 2007) and organized a major international conference (On Voyage, 2005). Its members have also collaborated on publications, presentations, and conference panels. If you are in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and would like to become involved in our activities on the UC Berkeley campus, write to us at tourism@berkeley.edu. If you are seeking post-doctoral/visiting scholar affiliation with the TSWG, please read our visiting scholar information page before writing.
Affiliated Researchers and Visiting Scholars
Co-Chairs, 2008-2009
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