In their editorial for the first issue of Tourist Studies, Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang made us aware that tourism research had shifted to an exploration of the extraordinary everyday where ‘more or less everyone now lives in a world rendered or reconfigured as interesting, entertaining and attractive – for tourists’. From our standpoint 20 years later, we suggest this particular departure point has important insights to offer our understanding of a quintessential tourism event, that of the festival, which now intervenes in daily life in all manner of ways. In this commentary, we present a reflective commentary on recent scholarship that advocates for more rigour in festival studies, with greater theory development and testing within the festival context, and how this work is suggestive of future directions for festival research. We present several areas that are ripe for further research, particularly given the tumultuous nature of the world we are living in, such as the challenges of climate change and how we might socialise in a post-Covid world. Much has changed in the 20 years since the inception of Tourist Studies, but festivals remain resilient – they will re-emerge in future, perhaps not unscathed but with a renewed sense of purpose.

在第一期《旅游研究》的社论中，阿德里安·富兰克林和迈克·克莱恩使我们意识到，旅游研究已经转向了对非凡日常的探索，其中“现在或多或少的每个人现在生活在一个被渲染或重新配置为有趣，有趣和有趣的世界中”吸引力–对游客而言。从20年后的角度来看，我们建议这个特定的出发点具有重要的见解，以使我们了解典型的旅游活动，即节日，现在已经以各种方式干预了日常生活。在这篇评论中，我们将对最近的奖学金进行反思性评论，该评论主张在节日研究中更加严格，在节日背景下进行更多的理论发展和检验，以及这项工作如何暗示节日研究的未来方向。我们提出了一些尚待进一步研究的领域，特别是考虑到我们所生活的世界动荡不安，例如气候变化的挑战以及如何在后Covid后的世界中交往。自“旅游研究”创立以来的20年中，发生了很多变化，但节日仍然具有弹性-节日将在未来重新出现，也许并非毫发无损，但具有新的宗旨感。