Tourism and mobilities : local-global connections /

• Other Authors: Urry, John, (Author of introduction, etc.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Tourism > Social aspects.; Tourism.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Geography.; Globalization.; Socioeconomics.; Tourism theory.; Travel.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.