Tourism and Mobilities: Local Global Connections

by Peter M. Burns

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845934040
• ISBN13: 9781845934040
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.6"