Tourism and Mobilities - Local Global Connections (Hardcover)

In the current trend of increasing globalization, relationships are evolving between global and local realities, rich and poor regions of the world and 'old' and 'new' leisure and tourism patterns. The tourist has become an active agent in their travel expereinces, moving between and among multiple localities, in an environment of transnational, interconnected social networks. In order to understand the modern tourist, concepts of mobility have begun to be applied to tourism studies and have questioned whether the word tourism is any longer sufficient to describe the complex socio-political milieu of people on the move. 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. Offering a thought-provoking examination of modern tourism, this will be an important text for students of tourism and human geography as well as tourism professionals.

General

Imprint:	Cabi Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	July 2008
Contributors:	Tim Gale
Editors:	Peter Burns (Director)
Contributors:	C. Michael Hall
Editors:	Marina Novelli
Contributors:	Wael Salah Fahmi • Tim Coles • David Duvall (Associate Professor) • Jeroen Van Wijk • Michael O'Regan • Rebecca Jane Bennett
Dimensions:	244 x 172 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-84593-404-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry Promotions
LSN:	1-84593-404-0
Barcode:	9781845934040

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