The Mobilities of Hospitality Work: An Exploration of Issues and Debates

Duncan, Tara; Scott, David; Baum, Tom

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2012.10.004

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“…In tourism, studies of mobility often focus on the movement of the tourist and statistics abound demonstrating sustained (past and future) growth in tourist arrivals. However, understanding of the issues related to the mobility of workers to meet the increased demand is less progressed [52,53].…”

Section: Mobilities/migration and Sustainability In Tourismmentioning

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Sustainability and the Tourism and Hospitality Workforce: A Thematic Analysis

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This paper is about the position of workforce and employment considerations within the sustainable tourism narrative. The paper aims to address the relative neglect of this area within the discourse of sustainable tourism and highlights references to the workforce within the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The discussion follows the emerging field of sustainable human resource management and the contribution that this can make to meeting both the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to enhancing the recognition of workforce and employment issues within the related debate in tourism. The body of the paper highlights examples of key dimensions of work and employment across varied tourism contexts, where sustainability is of increasing consequence and significance. The paper concludes by drawing together the implications of these "mini-cases" and locating them within key principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Section: Mobilities/migration and Sustainability In Tourismmentioning

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“…Contemporary academics stress that transitory lifestyles involve to the emergence of multiple selves and varying levels of affiliations with different places, people and activities (e.g. Duncan et al, 2009). It is therefore useful to consider the processes through which construction of selves takes place and the role of particular associations/disassociations.…”

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“…Current research within the broader mobilities paradigm has stressed that contemporary society is characterised by the continuous movement of people, objects, capital and information (Duncan, Scott & Baum, 2009;Hannam, Sheller & Urry, 2006). An emerging challenge, therefore, is to understand the complex networks, interactions and relationships that emerge within mobile societies.…”

Section: Migrant Mobilities and Networkmentioning

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Migrant networks, language learning and tourism employment

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This paper examines the relationship between migrants' social networks, the processes of language acquisition and tourism employment. Data collected using netnography and interviews are used to identify the strategies that Polish workers in the UK use to develop their language skills. The paper highlights the roles played by co-workers, co-nationals and customers in migrants' language learning, both in the physical spaces of work and the virtual spaces of internet forums. It also shows how migrant workers exchange knowledge about the use of English during different stages of their migration careers: prior to leaving their country of origin and getting a job, during their employment and after leaving their job. Implications for academic inquiry and human resource management practice are outlined.

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“…The mobilities paradigm offers a fresh perspective on tourism as enmeshed with other kinds of corporeal mobilities (Coles et al, 2006), rather than as a distinct extraordinary practice, disentangled from everyday life (Duncan, Scott & Baum, 2013;Franklin & Crang, 2001;Hannam et al, 2006). Tourism is conceived as constituting a vaguely distinguishable subset in a network of diverse flows of people, goods, capital, and information (Hannam et al, 2006), entangled in practice with other forms of discretionary mobility, such as pilgrimages, VFR (Barnett et al, 2010;Uriely, 2010;Uriely & Shani, 2012), second-home commuting (Hall & Müller, 2004), "old home" visits (Duval, 2003;King & Christou, 2011), as well as with travel for education, medical treatment, business, work and transnational migration (Schiller, Basch & Blanc, 1995).…”

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Beyond Eurocentrism in tourism: a paradigm shift to mobilities

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Tourism Recreation Research

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This article addresses critiques of Eurocentrism in tourism studies, which have called for a "paradigm shift" in response to the rapid rise of tourism from emerging world regions. We clarify the concept of a paradigm shift, and examine arguments for a shift in tourism studies on epistemological, theoretical and empirical levels. We argue for a shift on the theoretical level: the incorporation of tourism studies in the mobilities paradigm. We argue that this paradigm offers a fresh perspective on tourism as enmeshed with other kinds of discretionary mobilities, is free of Eurocentric assumptions, and destabilizes some of the leading concepts on which now problematic binary modernist thinking in tourism studies is based. However, the positivistic, 'etic' character of early studies of the mobilities paradigm hinders its culturally nuanced deployment in emerging world regions, a limitation we seek to remedy by adapting Tim Cresswell's (2010) conceptualization of mobility as comprised of movement, representation and practice. We conclude by a summary of the principal findings of our application of the mobilities paradigm to the comparative study of tourism from the emerging regions.

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The Mobilities of Hospitality Work: An Exploration of Issues and Debates

Cited by 125 publications

References 65 publications

Sustainability and the Tourism and Hospitality Workforce: A Thematic Analysis

Sustainability and the Tourism and Hospitality Workforce: A Thematic Analysis

Migrant networks, language learning and tourism employment

Beyond Eurocentrism in tourism: a paradigm shift to mobilities

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