Graham M.S. Dann: the peripatetic who was pushed and pulled
According to one of his colleagues, Valene Smith, it was because of his early and widely cited article on motivation in Annals of Tourism Research (Dann, 1977) that Graham Michael Stuart Dann became known for a period as "push pull Dann" The more Graham studied tourist motivation, the more convinced he became that push factors not only preceded pull factors, but that without push factors there would be no travel at all (Dann, 1981) Nonetheless, we still do not really know what pushed Graham out of his British homeland in 1975, when he boarded a jetliner bound for Barbados or indeed what pulled him back some 21 years later. At this beginning of his academic career, he was offered positions both in New Zealand and Barbados. He chose the latter, partly because it was closer to his wish list of destinations in Latin America. Later, Graham became less resistant to long haul flights. By his own reckoning, he has visited between 97 and 112 countries (depending on how they are territorially classified) and has flown on 88 airlines (16 of which are no longer in business) He therefore feels justified in putting into practice what he has studied. While many people are satisfied with a simple life by the seaside for a couple of weeks every year, Graham's Caribbean sojourn lasted much longer. There he enjoyed the company of fishermen and farmers in the rural setting of the Barbadian east coast for a great part of his life. Thus it came as a surprise for many of his colleagues when he returned to the UK in 1996 to take up a position as the first Professor of Tourism at the University of Luton (see Dann, 1997a; Harrison, 1997) Graham then acknowledged that he could only explain his novel repatriation in terms of the push pull paradigm that he had nurtured over the years. After all, expatriate academic life and return migration are not unlike tourism (Lauring, Selmer, Jacobsen, 2014) I first met Graham in 1994, at the XIII World Congress of Sociology in Bielefeld, Germany, in the working group on tourism research within the International Sociological Association (ISA) A few years later, Graham and I joined forces when I landed a Research Council grant for an image study (Jacobsen Dann, 2003) some years after Graham had published his magnum opus The Language of Tourism (Dann, 1996a) We also collaborated on studies of tourism and olfactory experiences (Dann Jacobsen, 2002, 2003) and on Mediterranean seaside holidaymaking (Jacobsen Dann, 2009; Jacobsen, Skogheim, Dann, in press) Moreover, I have contributed to his co edited The Sociology of Tourism: European Origins and Developments (Dann Parrinello, 2009) just as he had contributed to a book that I co edited with one of our mutual Norwegian colleagues, Arvid