As founding, past and current editors, we are very excited to welcome you to this special issue celebrating the 20th anniversary of Tourist Studies. In 2001, this journal was established in what the founding editors, Franklin and Crang (2001), called an ‘exciting and challenging time for work on tourism’ (p. 1). In their inaugural editorial, they questioned the apparent trajectory of tourist studies at the beginning of the 21st century, puzzled because at a time of exciting scholarship in such transdisciplinary fields as mobility studies and cosmopolitanism, they felt that ‘tourism studies had become stale, tired, repetitive and lifeless’ (p. 5). Much research identified multiple variants of the tourist quest for authenticity, and expressed a preoccupation with self-aware post-tourists who commented cynically about the constructed attractions that they beheld. Indeed, tourism was often understood as something undertaken while away from home as tourists entered exciting, liminal holiday realms in which they could become satiated with alterity before once more slipping safely back into their mundane, everyday worlds.

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二十年：对旅行历程和旅游研究未来方向的思考

作为创始，过去和现在的编辑，我们非常高兴地欢迎您参加庆祝旅游研究20周年的特刊。在2001年，该期刊的创立是根据创始人编辑Franklin和Crang（2001）所说的，“从事旅游业的激动人心和挑战性的时刻”（第1页）。他们在就职社论中质疑21世纪初旅游研究的明显轨迹，感到困惑，因为在流动性研究和世界主义等跨学科领域令人兴奋的学术研究之时，他们感到“旅游研究变得陈旧，疲倦” ，重复和毫无生气”（第5页）。许多研究确定了游客对真实性的追求的多种变体，并表达了对自我意识的后旅行者的关注，他们对所看到的建筑景点持怀疑态度。确实，旅游业通常被理解为在游客离家出走时所进行的事情，