The End of Tourism? MOBILITY AND LOCAL - GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

Description:

Tim Coles and Colleagues (2004) recently said that “Middle range theories of motivation, decision modelling, and even destination image…, although useful, do little to bridge fairly substantial gaps in our knowledge of tourism as a representation of contemporary social systems” As the contemporary world that produces the tourist becomes increasingly complex it might be argued that there is no such thing as tourism: only production, consumption and mobility. Heritage, arts, architecture, place, space and everyday leisure pursuits are commoditized and drawn into any number of diverse businesses that do not see themselves as having any connection with tourism. Yet their activities are supported by sophisticated global structures of airlines, reservation systems and product/ destination marketing campaigns. John Urry captures the spirit of the age with his reference to Bauman’s description of a “shift from solid, fixed modernity to a much more fluid and speeded-up ‘liquid modernity’ (2000).” This speededup version of life and culture (reminding us of Roland Robertson’s early dealings with globalization as “compression of the world and intensification of consciousness” ) is characterised by bodies on the move and travelling cultures.
Deadlines: 1st April 2005 - abstracts (+ 300 words)* 1st June 2005 - completed conference papers for inclusion in the conference pack* 1st October 2005 - full papers to be included in the edited volume of journal
Booking instructions: Please visit the conference website
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Cost:

Early bird rates before 15 April 2005: Full Delegate -£175; FT Student - £75; Day Rate -£100

Website and registration:

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/sympo2005/sympo2005registration.html

Keywords:

Anthropology

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