Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

Jillian Rickly is Assistant Professor of Tourism Marketing and Management in the Nottingham University Business School at the University of Nottingham, UK.Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, and a research affiliate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.Mary Mostafanezhad is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

• 1. Introduction: ‘New’ tourism and leisure mobilities – what’s new?Part I: Leisure2. Meanders as mobile practices: Street Flowers – Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land3. Entrainment: Human-equine leisure mobilities4. Leisure, bicycle mobilities, and cities5. Gendered automobilities: Female Pakistani migrants driving in Saudi Arabia6. What is a ‘dirtbag’? Reconsidering tourist typologies and leisure mobilities through rock climbing subcultures Part II: Work7. Exploring tourism employment in the Perhentian Islands: Mobilities of home and away 8. The ‘Nextpat’: Towards an understanding of contemporary expatriate subjectivities9. Should I stay or should I go? Labour and lifestyle mobilities of Bulgarian migrants to the UK10. Workers on the move: Global labour sourcing in the cruise industry 11. Confronting economic precariousness through international retirement: Japan’s old-age ‘economic refugees’ and Germany’s ‘exported grannies’ 12. Home exchanging: A shift in the tourism marketplace Part III: Development13. Travelling beauty: Diasporic development and transient service encounters at the salon 14. Orphanage Tourism and Development in Cambodia: A Mobilities Approach 15. Mobility for all through English-language voluntourism16. When pesos come at the expense of tourism proximity and moorings17. Making tracks in pursuit of the wild: Mobilising nature and tourism on a (com)modified African Savannah18. Decolonising tourism mobilities? Planning research within a First Nations community in Northern Canada Afterword

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