This article seeks to contribute to empirically grounded theoretical conceptualizations of “collaboration,” by offering a practice-theoretical take on both tourism and one of its pillars: daily tourism actor collaboration. It argues that practice theory offers an important approach to investigating tourism in applied situations. This is empirically illustrated by drawing on data material generated via interviews and life map methodology during four fieldwork stays in West, South, and East Greenland. By focusing on “what happens on the ground,” this article unfolds the ontological complexity of collaborative practices as heterogeneous and constantly emerging, disappearing, and shifting, a complexity which challenges the notion of collaboration as strategical tool for tourism planning and development. As an alternative, the practice theory approach presented here offers a more viable, concretely situated alternative to investigating the phenomenon of tourism as collaborative action.

本文旨在通过对旅游业及其支柱之一：日常旅游者合作进行实践-理论的探讨，为基于经验的“合作”概念化做出贡献。它认为实践理论为调查应用情况下的旅游业提供了一种重要的方法。通过在西部，南部和东部格陵兰岛进行的四个野外考察期间，利用访谈和生活地图方法生成的数据材料，从经验上说明了这一点。通过关注“实际情况”，本文揭示了协作实践的本体论复杂性，这些异构体是异类且不断出现，消失和转移的，这种复杂性挑战了将协作作为旅游业规划和开发的战略工具的观念。作为备选，