Abstract

Despite existing in practice, as well as in other social science and policy literature, narcotourism has not appeared in tourism journals, and its full scope remains unarticulated. This paper aims to introduce narcotourism to a broad audience of tourism scholars, provide its conceptual foundations, and guide subsequent tourism scholarship on this topic. Looking beyond writings that have previously focused on the consumption of drugs during travel and tourism experiences, this paper presents a conceptual framework distinguishing six different tourism-related activities encompassed by the term narcotourism: consumption-oriented narcotourism, production-oriented narcotourism, acquisition-oriented narcotourism, dark heritage narcotourism, narcotrafficker tourism and emulatory narcotourism. This framework describes the hallmark characteristics of each form of narcotourism, identifies linkages between these forms of narcotourism and other areas of tourism scholarship, and concludes by suggesting a future research agenda for narcotourism. Given a long history of association between tourism activities and drug consumption, shifting legal dynamics regarding drug use, insights emerging from related disciplines, and narcotourism’s coexistence alongside myriad forms of tourism already explored by tourism scholars, this paper provides a timely foundation for future research on narcotourism within tourism studies.

摘要

尽管在实践中以及其他社会科学和政策文献中存在，但麻醉旅游并未出现在旅游期刊中，其全部范围仍未阐明。本文旨在向广大旅游学者介绍麻醉旅游，提供其概念基础，并指导后续关于该主题的旅游学术研究。超越以前关注旅行和旅游体验期间药物消费的著作，本文提出了一个概念框架，区分麻醉旅游一词所包含的六种不同的旅游相关活动：以消费为导向的麻醉旅游，以生产为导向的麻醉旅游，以获取为导向毒品旅游、黑暗遗产毒品旅游、毒贩旅游和模拟毒品旅游。该框架描述了每种形式的毒品旅游的标志性特征，确定了这些形式的毒品旅游与其他旅游学术领域之间的联系，并通过建议未来的毒品旅游研究议程作为结论。鉴于旅游活动与药物消费之间的关联历史悠久、有关药物使用的法律动态变化、相关学科的见解以及麻醉旅游与旅游学者已经探索的无数旅游形式共存，本文为未来的研究提供了及时的基础旅游研究中的麻醉旅游。