The research adopts the mobilities approach to examining the everyday experience of tour
guides. Scholars tend to highlight guides as service providers and cultural brokers, whose …

This study analyses to what extent conventional tourism is part of the experience of
professional visitors. Following the literature on mobilities, this paper assumes that leisure …

Tourism is one of the main facets of the mobility of people, commodities and imaginaries.
The increasing complexities of tourism, connected to the rise of the phenomenon in both …

For the burgeoning contingents of mobile societies, tourism is no longer an exceptional
intermission in ordinary activities 'at home'(Cohen, 1974), a temporary rupture 'in …

Geographers have certainly contributed actively to the extant scholarly literature relating to
tourism work and workers. Nevertheless, with few notable exceptions, most of this research …

Despite advances in the study of tour guiding, there has been limited exploration of the work
and life of tour guides, and even fewer studies seeking the views and perspectives of tour …

In this chapter I want to look at three interwoven mobilisations around travel and tourism.
Perhaps the most obvious is the mobilisation of the destination, where I want to suggest that …

This article discusses the relationship between space, material practices, cognitive work and
the emotions at work during a personal walking holiday as a way of contributing to a wider …

Tourism has been the subject of considerable academic attention over the last three
decades. Recently, there have been notable criticisms over the nature of tourism research …

We present in this issue four articles which lie at the heart of what Tourist Studies is about–
the interrogation of identities, imaginations and issues that are played out and that arise …