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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of Contents1: 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
