Major thinkers in the field of tourism

 Others:

 Dean MacCannell

John Urry

Michael Hall

Richard Butler

Alain de Botton

"(D)e Botton recasts them freshly and sensitively. He also tries to solve them, by giving us mental baggage more appropriate to contemporary travel: the ability to see poetry in liminal places like service stations and airports, an understanding of why art can be a good guide and why guide-books can be very bad guides, cameos of men from the past who can be good companions on our journeys, even if we travel alone, or only from our armchairs. De Botton not only writes about these things, but demonstrates them through the text and illustrations." - Annette Kobak, Times Literary Supplement

Valene Smith