Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze
| Autor: | Juliet Jain, Adele Ladkin, William Clayton, Cheryl Willis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Focus (computing)
Mobilities business travel work-life balance ICTs family connections human resources management mobility tourist gaze mobilities digital technology 05 social sciences Centre for Transport and Society 0507 social and economic geography Business travel Advertising Development Gaze Family life Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management ComputerApplications_GENERAL 0502 economics and business Sociology Marketing 050703 geography 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Tourism Research. 63:48-59 |
| ISSN: | 0160-7383 1873-7722 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.annals.2016.10.008 |
| Popis: | © 2016 This paper reflects on business travel as a contemporary form of mobility and how it relates to family life. Through qualitative research with business travellers, insights are gained into the role digital technology plays in enabling connections to home and family. The paper argues that technology affords a ‘business tourist gaze’, characterised by a focus on ‘home’ rather than ‘away’ as might be the case for leisure tourists. The paper discusses how, through the business tourist gaze, the boundaries between the everyday and the exotic are dissolved and the business traveller is disconnected from the destination, simultaneously absent whilst present both at the destination and at home. Theoretical understandings of the business tourist experience are offered. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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