Overview

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 experiences, 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.

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Author:   Tim Gale (University of the West of England, UK) ,  Peter Burns (Director, Institute for Tourism Research (INTOUR), UK) ,  C Michael Hall (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) ,  Marina Novelli (Nottingham University Business School)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781845934040

ISBN 10:   1845934040
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   18 July 2008
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1: The end of tourism, or endings in tourism 2: Of Time and Space and Other things: Laws of Tourism and the Geographies of Contemporary Mobilities 3: Glocal Heterotopias: Neo-Flaneur’s Transit Narratives 4: Telling Tales of Tourism: Mobility, Media and Citizenship in the 2004 EU Enlargement 5: """"Claim you are from Canada, eh"""": Travelling citizenship within global space 6: International Student Mobility: Cross-cultural learning from international internships 7: Hypermobility in backpacker lifestyles: the emergence of the Internet café 8: Entering the global margin: Setting the ‘other’ scene in independent travel 9: Everyday techno-social devices in everyday travel life: digital audio devices in solo travelling lifestyles 10: Environmental discourses in the aviation industry: the reproduction of mobility 11: Political instability, trans-national tourist companies and destination recovery in the Middle East after 9/11 12: Business relations in the design of package tours in a changing environment: the case of tourism from Germany to Jordan"

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Professor Marina Novelli (PhD) is a globally renowned tourism for sustainable development expert and Professor of Marketing and Tourism at The University of Nottingham Business School (UK). She is known for her contributions to the concept of Niche Tourism, the study of Tourism Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and new critical elaboration of the Overtourism phenomenon. She is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, Alternate Member of the UNWTO World Committee on Tourism Ethics (2021-2025) and Member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council for Sustainable Development (2023-2024). She has written and advised in the field of international tourism policy, planning and development in Africa, Europe and Asia for institutions such as the World Bank, the EU, the UN, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, National Ministries and Tourism Boards, Regional Development Agencies, private sector and NGOs. She distinguishes herself as a particularly active member of the global tourism community and for her inclusive research leadership practice and excellence in collaborating with multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholders and multi-cultural teams.

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