Introduction. Tourist Imaginaries and Practices in the United States: Economic and Territorial Issues

The question raised in this issue of Mondes du tourisme focuses on tourist imaginaries and practices in the USA, notably by emphasizing their economic and territorial impacts on the country.This issue results from critical reflections that began during the international conference entitled "Tourist Imaginaries and Mobility in the United States", organized on February 6-7 2020 1 , in short, and coincidentally only a few weeks prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic which led to the border closing, and prevented any kinds of travel, touristic or others, ironically shedding a bright light on the question of tourism.Some of the conference papers led to the publication of an issue of the Revue française d'études américaines (RFEA), entitled "Imaginaires et pratiques touristiques aux États-Unis : enjeux identitaires et mémoriels" (Croisy et al., 2021).As a follow-up to the latter, this issue of Mondes du tourisme provides further insights into US tourism as a field of study, one that has been extensively explored by French academia already but that still deserves more scrutiny.Research on tourism in the US: context and stakes 2 From the 1970s onwards, and more specifically and emblematically since 1973 with the creation of the Annals of Tourism Research, the US has seen the rise of tourism studies, a quite prolific interdisciplinary field rooted in humanities and social sciences (Réau, 2017). 3In the United States, and more broadly in the English-speaking world, most research in the field has aimed to theorize the tourism question, often-but not exclusively-based on the US example.Among the landmarks underlining the transformations of both tourism and western societies, we may highlight the rise of a "touristic" middle-class-Introduction. Tourist Imaginaries and Practices in the United States: Economi...

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