The new economy as a gateway to leisure travelling: experiences of highly skilled Indian professionals in Europe

International student migration: a comparison of UK and Indian students’ motivations for studying abroad

“…In some cases where youth and highly skilled mobility are entangled, the sense of adventure is not seen as a 'natural' activity of the non-white body. It is instead read as the new middle class aspiring to attain or perform an act of 'white privilege', as if leisure mobility is only the remit of the Western traveller (Roos 2017).…”

Redefining Asian tourism

“…Numerous studies conducted content analysis on websites (Horng & Tsai, 2010;Moghavvemi et al, 2017). Three studies reported the used of ethnography (Coetzee, Liu & Filep, 2019;Mura & Yuen, 2019), autoethnography (Coetzee et al, 2019) and netnography (Mura & Yuen, 2019;Roos, 2017) approaches, while two studies employed visual methods (Bhati & Pearce, 2017;Hung, 2018;. More than half of the qualitative studies did not engage in any epistemological discussion.…”

Leisure & travel as class signifier: Distinction practices of China's new rich

“…As a key subset of leisure, the search for status through travel is also endless. In tourism, conspicuous consumption is closely tied to bandwagon and snob effects immanent in travelers' need for social prestige (Correia & Kozak, 2012;Correia, Kozak, & Reis, 2016;Roos, 2017). This motive and lifestyle affect tourism system in every respect ranging from destination selection to the emergence of new tourists (Rocha, Rocha, & Rocha, 2016).…”