1st Edition

Tourism and Leisure Mobilities Politics, work, and play

Edited By Jillian Rickly, Kevin Hannam, Mary Mostafanezhad Copyright 2017
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring. A mobilities approach to tourism and leisure encourages us to think beyond the mobilities of tourists to ways in which tourism and leisure experiences bring other mobilities into sync, or disorder, and as a result... Read more

1. Introduction: ‘New’ tourism and leisure mobilities – what’s new?



Part I: Leisure



2. Meanders as mobile practices: Street Flowers – Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land





3. Entrainment: Human-equine leisure mobilities





4. Leisure, bicycle mobilities, and cities





5. Gendered automobilities: Female Pakistani migrants driving in Saudi Arabia





6. What is a ‘dirtbag’? Reconsidering tourist typologies and leisure mobilities through rock climbing subcultures



Part II: Work









7. Exploring tourism employment in the Perhentian Islands: Mobilities of home and away



8. The ‘Nextpat’: Towards an understanding of contemporary expatriate subjectivities



9. Should I stay or should I go? Labour and lifestyle mobilities of Bulgarian migrants to the UK



10. Workers on the move: Global labour sourcing in the cruise industry



11. Confronting economic precariousness through international retirement: Japan’s old-age ‘economic refugees’ and Germany’s ‘exported grannies’



12. Home exchanging: A shift in the tourism marketplace



Part III: Development



13. Travelling beauty: Diasporic development and transient service encounters at the salon



14. Orphanage Tourism and Development in Cambodia: A Mobilities Approach



15. Mobility for all through English-language voluntourism



16. When pesos come at the expense of tourism proximity and moorings



17. Making tracks in pursuit of the wild: Mobilising nature and tourism on a (com)modified African Savannah



18. Decolonising tourism mobilities? Planning research within a First Nations community in Northern Canada









Afterword

Biography

Jillian Rickly is Assistant Professor of Tourism Marketing and Management in the Nottingham University Business School at the University of Nottingham, UK.



Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, and a research affiliate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.



Mary Mostafanezhad is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.