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This article introduces a collection of articles that delve into the concept of tourism entanglements. It emphasizes that tourism is not solely an economic activity, but rather a complex force that intertwines with various aspects of society, politics, and geography. The authors argue that understanding these entanglements is crucial for comprehending the diverse outcomes and impacts of tourism. The article also highlights the importance of adopting an entanglement thinking approach in social sciences, challenging binary thinking and reductionism. The text concludes by introducing a special issue dedicated to exploring the concept of entanglement in tourism, which includes articles on topics such as orphanage tourism, the role of women in a World Heritage city, the impact of the global pandemic on tourism, and the use of vaccine passports for global mobility. [Extracted from the article]

Agrotourism in Vietnam has been identified as one of the strategies used to achieve green growth and countryside modernisation, and it is often included as part of the national and local agenda. In this paper, we examine agrotourism in a village in the periphery of Hội An city (an international tourism hub in central Vietnam) to question tourism's interaction with ongoing development processes. More specifically, we aim to understand the impact of fast peri‐urbanisation on agrotourism and the impacts of agrotourism on people's daily lives, specifically when it comes to physical changes in their living environment, tensions in their social life and their concerns about the future. Our analysis is supported with data generated from interviews with farmers, local officials, tourism workers and tourists. We find that agrotourism products lacked authenticity and farming was not of great interest for tourists, yet the state's investment in the village tended to favour spaces and infrastructure that could attract more tourists and generate profit, to the detriment of cultural infrastructure. Land speculation and an unequal distribution of income were the main tensions in the village along with farmers' concerns about their rural heritage, income diversification and environmental quality. As such, agrotourism in the village has been driven by rapid urbanisation and mass tourism, creating a competition between a consumption activity and a productive activity. Those are important parameters that future policymakers need to take into consideration in order to sustain the city's food production and tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]