Graburn and Jafari had brought together some of the biggest names in each discipline at the time, including Valene Smith, Dennison Nash, Erick Cohen,
and Peter Murphy. Yet what was striking about this issue was that each disciplinary paper had its owntrajectory of research and community of scholars, with little overlap. This underscored what Echtner and Jamal (1997) would later call a "disciplinary dilemma" in tourism research, with clearly drawn boundaries between perspectives and little interface, integration, or exchange of theories and methods.
At the time, it seems best anyone could hope for was for tourism research to meld together into two major disciplines: those dealing with tourism as an industry and those dealing with the more intangible,cultural dynamics of tourism (see Tribe, 1997).