Tourism and mobilities : local-global connections /

This book aims to communicate a series of ideas grounded in present discussions on how 'mobility studies' can help enrich and enlighten the understanding of tourism in the context of the current trend of increasing globalization. Bringing together theoretical and practical issues, this edi...

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Other Authors: Urry, John, (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
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245 0 0 |a Tourism and mobilities :  |b local-global connections /  |c edited by Peter M. Burns and Marina Novelli, Centre for Tourism Policy Studies, School of Service Management, University of Brighton, UK ; [with a foreword by Professor John Urry]. 
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505 0 # |a The end of tourism, or endings in tourism? / Tim Gale -- Of time and space and other things : laws of tourism and the geographies of contemporary mobilities / C. Michael Hall -- 'Glocal' heterotopias : neo-flâneur's transit narratives / Wael Salah Fahmi -- Telling tales of tourism : mobility, media and citizenship in the 2004 EU enlargement / Tim Coles -- 'Claim you are from Canada, eh' : travelling citizenship within global space / David Timothy Duval -- International student mobility : cross-cultural learning from international internships / Jeroen van Wijk, Frank Go and Erik van 't Klooster -- Hypermobility in backpacker lifestyles : the emergence of the Internet café / Michael O'Regan -- Entering the global margin : setting the 'other' scene in independent travel / Rebecca Jane Bennett -- Everyday techno-social devices in everyday travel life : digital audio devices in solo travelling lifestyles / Peter M. Burns and Michael O'Regan -- Environmental discourses in the aviation industry : the reproduction of mobility / Paul Peeters and Stefan Gössling -- Business relations in the design of package tours in a changing environment : the case of tourism from Germany to Jordan / Sabine Dörry. 
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520 3 # |a This book aims to communicate a series of ideas grounded in present discussions on how 'mobility studies' can help enrich and enlighten the understanding of tourism in the context of the current trend of increasing globalization. Bringing together theoretical and practical issues, this edited volume analyses tourism's wider role as an agent for the mobile modern population of the world. Themes range from post-modern youth and independent mobility to theoretical texts on hypermobility and citizenship within global space and mobility, media and citizenship. The book is intended for students of tourism and human geography as well as tourism professionals. It has 11 chapters and a subject index. 
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