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Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World
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Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World (International Library of Sociology) Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Germann Molz, Jennie

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  • Title Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World (International Library of Sociology)
  • Author Germann Molz, Jennie
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2012-03-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Z1-C-077-01314
  • ISBN 9780415682855 / 0415682851
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Library of Congress subjects Online social networks, Culture and tourism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011040534
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.481

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From the publisher

Living in a world that is increasingly 'on the move' means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of 'interactive travel'. Today's travellers are more likely than ever to pack a laptop or a mobile phone and to use these devices to stay in touch with friends and family members - as well as to connect with strangers and other travellers - while they are on the road. New practices such as location-aware navigating, travel blogging, flashpacking and Couchsurfing now shape the way travellers engage with each other, with their social networks, and with the world around them.

Travel Connections prompts a rethinking of the key paradigms in tourism studies in the digital age. Interactive travel calls into question longstanding tourism concepts such as landscape, the tourist gaze, hospitality, authenticity and escape. The book proposes a range of new concepts to describe the way tourists inhabit the world and engage with their social networks in the twenty-first century: smart tourism, the mediated gaze, mobile conviviality, re-enchantment and embrace.

Based on intensive fieldwork with interactive travellers, Travel Connections offers a detailed account of this emerging phenomenon and uncovers the new forms of mediated and face-to-face togetherness that become possible in a mobile world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, tourism and hospitality, new media, cosmopolitanism studies, mobility studies and cultural studies.

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  • Choice, 03/01/2013, Page 0

About the author

Jennie Germann Molz is an assistant professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the social and civic implications of tourism mobilities and technology. She is the co-editor of Mobilizing Hospitality and an editor of the journal Hospitality & Society. She has published extensively on the topics of tourism, mobility, hospitality, globalization, cosmopolitanism and new technologies.

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