Böcker av Jonas Larsen

Puts forward a social science study of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. This book examines five interdependent mobilities that form and reform these geographies of networks and travel in the contemporary world.

Looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, this book considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It also examines the circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances.

A fully revised edition of a seminal text from a world class authority in tourism. Each chapter has been significantly updated to include fresh data, examples and critical theory and three entirely new chapters have been added. A modern classic.

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. This book invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt.