The place of the family in tourism research: Domesticity and thick sociality by the pool

Pons, Pau Obrador

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2011.07.006

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“…While tourism has been explained as an escape from responsibilities and in opposition to everyday life (Author forthcoming; Obrador, 2012), home swap does not actually involve getting away from home. Instead, home swap simultaneously involves escaping from, and being at home.…”

Section: Home Swap As Domesticitymentioning

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Market escape through exchange: home swap as a form of non-commercial hospitality

Andriotis

Agiomirgianakis

2013

Current Issues in Tourism

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The purpose of this paper is to examine home swap -a form of non-commercial hospitality that has witnessed a great expansion in the last decade. In conjunction with prior writings on various subjects related to home swap, this study can be utilized in compiling a preliminary conceptualization of home swapping, as a form of noncommercial hospitality, with its own characteristics. In particular this study identifies six dimensions of home swap, namely (a) escape of the market; (b) asymmetric exchanges (c) need for trustiness; (d) use of a hospitality exchange network; (e) demand for domesticity and (f) quest to experience local authenticity. The results of this study are being utilized to construct a preliminary conceptualization of home swapping as a distinct vacation alternative building on old virtues and using new technology.

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Section: Home Swap As Domesticitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Market escape through exchange: home swap as a form of non-commercial hospitality

Andriotis

Agiomirgianakis

2013

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…The family, including children, represents one of the largest markets for the leisure and tourism industry (Carr 2006;Obrador 2012). For example, in 2013 there were 469,290 twoparent with children families and 201,804 one parent with children families comprising 43% of households in New Zealand (Statistics New Zealand 2013).…”

Section: Family Leisure Children Mothers and Fathers In The Literaturementioning

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Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’

Fountain

Schänzel

Stewart

et al. 2015

Annals of Leisure Research

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Studies of family leisure and holidays reveal that an important goal of these experiences is the fostering of family togetherness and social connectedness away from usual work/life pressures. As outlined by Schänzel and Smith (2014), however, family experiences of leisure include opportunities for both 'family time' and 'own time'. Family time incorporates opportunities for strengthening family bonds by creating family memories and allowing learning to occur. By contrast, own time encapsulates freedom from those family commitments to pursue one's own interests and to seek respite from the obligatory commitments of family life. Using data collected in face-to-face questionnaires completed with 221 New Zealand family groups, this paper seeks to explore the extent to which family time and own time experiences are differently perceived by parents accompanying their children to three family-friendly visitor attractions in Christchurch, New Zealand. In particular, the paper explores the motivations and experiences sought by fathers visiting with their child/ren at these attractions and compares these with mothers' experiences and motivations. Findings show that fathers have differing motivations and seek different experiences than mothers at these attractions, and that these motivations vary based on whether they are attending visitor attractions as sole parents or accompanied by a co-parent.

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“…Weak-tie relationships are associated with bridging capital which is considered important for reaching out of a close-knit group to others with different resources or new information (Granovetter, 1973). Tourism presents a space to reinforce existing (Obrador, 2012;White & White, 2007) and develop new social ties. Digital media now plays a significant role in maintaining more dispersed strong-tie relationships and has extended our ability to develop and maintain weaktie relationships.…”

Section: Community and Social Networkmentioning

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Tourism communities and social ties: the role of online and offline tourist social networks in building social capital and sustainable practice

Dickinson

Filimonau

Hibbert

et al. 2016

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Mobile connectivity enables the adoption of new ways to connect with social networks which are changing how we might, and could, seek support. In the tourism domain we increasingly blend online and offline presence to engage with social networks in the spatial location, at a distance and across time. This paper explores the forms of community that exist in physical tourism contexts, contexts not previously analysed through a community lens, and explores how mobile technology is creating connections within and beyond existing social networks. It examines how sustainable tourism can be enhanced by mobile connectivity through new spaceÀtime practices and using ephemeral interpersonal relationships to harness niche groups to create bottom-up social systems interested in sharing experiences, ideas and resources. Special attention is given to the concept of gelling socialities which proposes a less ridged network structure, and to the need to understand the increasingly liquid social dynamics of mobile social interactions. The paper adds to the theories surrounding community, social ties and tourism's value to society. It draws on data from in-depth interviews undertaken while designing and testing a collaborative travel app. It contributes to growing research into the new technologies increasingly available for sustainable tourism marketing and implementation.

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The place of the family in tourism research: Domesticity and thick sociality by the pool

Cited by 160 publications

References 36 publications

Market escape through exchange: home swap as a form of non-commercial hospitality

Market escape through exchange: home swap as a form of non-commercial hospitality

Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’

Tourism communities and social ties: the role of online and offline tourist social networks in building social capital and sustainable practice

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