New Special Issue – After Dark: Atmospheres, Temporalities, and Embodied Practices of Nighttime Tourism

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I’m very pleased to share the launch of a special issue to be published in Tourism Geographies that I’m co-editing with my colleague and friend Dr. Jordi Nofre(NOVA FCSH, Portugal), titled:

After Dark: Atmospheres, Temporalities, and Embodied Practices of Nighttime Tourism

This special issue emerges from our shared conviction that tourism studies must turn its gaze toward the night. While daytime tourism has been extensively theorized, the night remains a vastly underexplored temporal and affective space—one where urban rhythms shift, atmospheres transform, and new modes of being together unfold.

As Coordinator of the International Night Studies Network, I have had the chance to witness the growing academic and policy interest in nighttime dynamics across fields. Jordi, as Coordinator of the LXNIGHTS Research Group, has been a pioneer in connecting nightlife, tourism, and urban change in Southern Europe. Together, we aim to bring these insights into conversation through this issue.

We welcome contributions that critically and creatively engage with:

night festivals and after-dark events
spiritual and religious tourism under the stars
queer nightlife and questions of visibility and space
night diving, night safaris, and astrotourism
issues of governance, safety, rhythm, and light
political ecologies of illumination and darkness
affective atmospheres and embodied experiences
and much more…

This issue also invites authors to reflect on how to research the night—methodologically and ethically.

📅 Deadline for Abstracts: 15 November 2025
📌 Full Call for Papers: https://www.tgjournal.com/after-dark-nighttime-tourism.html
📎 Submission Guidelines: https://www.tgjournal.com/notes-for-authors.html

Whether you work on stargazing, nighttime mobilities, affective atmospheres, or the sociopolitical dimensions of the nocturnal city, we encourage you to submit your work and join this effort to consolidate a field we believe is only just beginning to reveal its depth.

Let’s illuminate the edges of tourism—after dark.

After Dark: Nighttime Tourism – TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES Download