One of the keynote speakers, anthropologist
Nelson Graburn ‒ whom I like to consider one of the "grandfathers" of the social scientifi c
study of tourism ‒ eagerly pulled the newly minted, thick red book out of his bag and, bursting with
enthusiasm, proudly showed it to the other keynote speaker, his colleague Jafar Jafari ‒ another forefather
of the discipline, who is best known for his role as the founding editor of the venerable journal,
The Annals of Tourism Research and the editor of Routledge’s Encyclopedia of Tourism (Jafari, 2000).