This is the first book to critically engage with the application of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies. By doing so it challenges approaches that have dominated the literature for the last 20 yrs and casts new light on issues of materiality, ordering and networks in Tourism. It further aims to aid understanding about the approach, its possibilities and limitations as an ontology and research methodology as well as advance its use and research in the field of tourism.

1. Introduction 2. How ANT Works 3. Tourismscapes, Entrepreneurs and Sustainability: Enacting ANT in Tourism Studies 4. The Choreography of a Mobile World: Tourism Orderings 5. Tourism Materialities: Enacting Cigars in Touristic Cuba 6. Enacting Risk at Bessegen 7. Walking Down the Boulevard: On Performing Cultural Tourism Mobilities 8. Enacting Destinations: The Politics of Absence and Presence 9. Destinations as Virtual Objects of Tourist Communication 10. Tourism, ANT and the Earth 11. Gatherings: Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity

René van der Duim has a Special Professorship Tourism and Sustainable Development in the Department of Environmental Studies at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Carina Ren is Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson is Assistant Professor at the Department of Life and Environmentsl Sciences at University of Iceland and project manager at the Social Science Research Institute of University of Iceland.