Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

Abstract

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 re-conceptualises social theory. The anthology stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study to illustrate the advantages of multidisciplinary conversation, and in so doing it challenges how we approach studies of movement-based phenomena and the concept of scale. Part I examines the ways in which mobility informs and is informed by leisure, from everyday practices to leisure-inspired mobile lifestyles. Part II investigates individuals and communities that become entrepreneurial in the face of changing tourism contexts and reflects on the performance of work through multiple mobilities. Part III turns to issues of development, with attention to the cultural politics that frame development encounters in the context of tourism. The varied ways that people move into and out of development projects is mediated by geopolitical discourses that can both challenge and perpetuate geographic imaginations of tourism destinations.The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography, e.g. notions of identity, representation and culture, while also providing for perspectives from cognate areas such as anthropology, cultural studies, gastronomy and food studies, marketing, policy studies and political economy, regional and urban planning, and sociology, within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/series/SE0522 The series comprises two strands:

Dimensions of mobilities, tourism and transition of cultural hegemony: a qualitative inquiry from Sri Lanka

“…Structural changes and complex destination management together with changing nature of community itself induced by mobilities have challenged the traditional, fixed and closed communities and made them more fluid in both space and time. Rickly et al (2016) conclude that the present community could be identified as a group of people sharing common values, beliefs and identities yet not essentially dwell in the same geographical area. This was observed factual in the context of fast moving tourist destinations observed in this study.…”