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This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernization, globalization, migration and social change affect the structuring of the social fabric, the focus of the book is to illuminate these processes of social and spatial re-structurings. A leading team of contributors from the Cosmobilities network highlight different aspects of inequality in relation to mobilities, such as gender, supplying transport infrastructure, job-related relocations, multi-locality, social network geography, and socio-spatial development.
In aiming to understand and model peoples’ out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. Firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel, being less rigid in temporal and spatial patterns and more influenced by external factors such as social contacts or weather conditions. Secondly, traditional aggregated transport models do not include any information on peoples’ social interactions or their personal social networks. In contrast, the recent development and availability of disaggregated models allows more detailed modelling of elements such as individual characteristi...
This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernization, globalization, migration and social change affect the structuring of the social fabric, the focus of the book is to illuminate these processes of social and spatial re-structurings. A leading team of contributors from the Cosmobilities network highlight different aspects of inequality in relation to mobilities, such as gender, supplying transport infrastructure, job-related relocations, multi-locality, social network geography, and socio-spatial development.
This thought-provoking book analyses recent innovations for researching travel behaviour over the life course. Original in its approach, it synthesises quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to contribute to conceptual, methodological and empirical advancements in the field.
Tourismus und Tourismus-Wissenschaft sind Standortfaktoren für Regionen und Städte. Was gilt es zu tun, um ihre Strahlkraft auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft weiter zu stärken? Im Buch von Walter Freyer, Michaela Naumann und Alexander Schuler reflektieren Experten aus dem In- und Ausland die Rolle des Tourismus für die Entwicklung von Städten und Regionen: Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisempfehlungen für die Ansiedlung von Tourismusunternehmen, den touristischen Wettbewerb und ein kreatives Standortmarketing!
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities that form and reform these geographies of networks and travel in the contemporary world. These are: p...
This volume presents twenty updated and new theories of travelers’ decisions and behaviors. The volume describes the advances in theory construction and practical applications of theory in the disciplines of tourism, hospitality, leisure, and entertainment (THLE) research.
Die Problematik der Geschwindigkeiten in Siedlungsgebieten wird von unterschiedlichen Gesichtspunkten aus betrachtet und beurteilt: Welche Auswirkungen haben herabgesetzte Höchstgeschwindigkeiten auf den öffentlichen, den Fuß- und den Veloverkehr? Wie werden die Netzfunktionen von Hauptstraßen für den motorisierten Individualverkehr durch Tempo 30 beeinflusst? Wie wirken sich reduzierte signalisierte Höchstgeschwindigkeiten auf die Reisegeschwindigkeiten und in Folge auf die Erreichbarkeit aus? In dem Band werden Vorträge und Diskussionen aus einer Veranstaltungsreihe zum Thema und die daraus postulierten 12 Thesen publiziert.
Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and crucial research method (in spite of its ubiquity as part of urban life) has often been overlooked. Bringing together new research on sites across Europe, Walking in the European City addresses the nature of everyday mobility in contemporary urban settings, shedding light not only on the ways in which walking relates to other social institutions and practices, but also as a method for studying urban life.
Tourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism. Sustainability marketing can, however, use marketing skills and techniques to good purpose, by understanding market needs, designing more sustainable products and identifying more persuasive methods of communication to bring behavioural change. This book summarises the latest research on the theories, methods and results of marketing that seeks to make tourist destinations better places to live in, and better places to visit. It shares evidence on the motivations, mechanisms and barriers that businesses encounter, and on successes in changing consumer behaviour and pursuing sustainability goals. Pa...