Since the beginning of the 19th century, tourism's spatial patterns have dramatically changed: from a system comprising a small number of places to a global system of tourist places. A geo-historical process of an expanding system of tourist places has been going on, where ever-new places enter the system while others exit the tourism system. It raises the question of globalisation as a double process of a “touristification” of the world through the application of the tourist gaze to virtually every object and place, and of the emergence of a global pattern of tourist places. Through the construction of a data base relying on tourist guides from 1800 to 2000, we provide a cartography of the globalisation of tourism.