A paradigmatic discussion for the study of immigrant hosts

Griffin, Tom

doi:10.1080/13683500.2012.755157

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“…More recently, VFR research has started to focus on the social and relational aspects (e.g. Backer, 2010;Capistrano, 2013;Griffin, 2013a;Shani & Uriely, 2012), which is deepening our understanding of VFR travel. Although the role of VFR hosts is a central aspect of VFR travel, little research has been undertaken to examine it, and the focus has been on the traveller rather than on the host (Griffin, 2013b;Young et al, 2007).…”

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Hosting Friends Versus Hosting Relatives: Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

Yousuf

Backer

2016

Journal of Tourism Research

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Little research has been undertaken to examine visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel from the perspective of hosts. Additionally, little research has explored the differences between VFs and VRs, treating VFR as one homogenous group. This research examined the hosts' perspective of hosting friends versus relatives through in‐depth interviews with 34 local residents in three contrasting destinations in Australia. Key differences were found between the experiences of hosting friends versus relatives, with immigration a key aspect in impacting the outcome. This is the first study to examine hosting friends versus relatives and to consider how immigration and destination impact VFR travel experiences for hosts. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Hosting Friends Versus Hosting Relatives: Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

Yousuf

Backer

2016

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Much of the informal travel consists of VFR (Griffin 2013), a practice which considerably expanded in scale, in wake of the dispersion of local family and social networks owing to massive rural-to-urban migration (Hannam and Diekmann, 2011;Diegues, 2001). Rhythmic home trips by displaced rural-to-urban migrants surge particularly during major festivals and public holidays, and often create enormous jams on the main traffic arteries and pressures on the railway systems.…”

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A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

Cohen

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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Increasing numbers of people from the emerging world regions, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East engage in tourism practices at domestic, intra-regional and long-haul international scales. In this article we deploy an innovative application of the mobilities approach, which we argue moves beyond the Eurocentrism implicit in modernist tourism studies, in a comparative analysis of tourism in and from these regions and those in the 'West'. Our analysis opens up the systematic study of tourism in emerging world regions in terms of the mobilities paradigm, and concludes: one, travel had a multiplicity of origins in societies in the emerging regions, but most did not possess an equivalent emic term to 'tourism.' Two, tourism at domestic and intraregional levels tends to be entangled with other discretionary mobilities, whereas the long-haul level is more differentiated. Three, the development of domestic discretionary travel in emerging regions can be represented by four overlapping 'mobility constellations'. Four, there are significant historical differences between the regions in their long-haul mobility constellations, although their kinetic hierarchies are all still steep. Five, forms of movement and associated practices of discretionary travellers from the emerging regions and Western countries became increasingly similar under the impact of socio-technological, economic and cultural globalisation. Six, differences between the emerging regions, particularly Asia, and the West are most salient on the emic level of representations of international travel: the specific cultural motive forces for tourism do not centre on authenticity-seeking, but are instead bound up with prestige and markers of modernity.

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“…Measurement of the VFR market component is critical, and there is a suspicion that it is systematically undervalued by official statistics on tourism by purpose of visit (Jackson, 1990;Backer, 2012;Griffin, 2013). This is because many visitors, who may be considered VFR by tourism professionals, will actually record themselves as pleasure visitors.…”

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Migration and inbound tourism: an Italian perspective

Massidda

Etzo

Piras

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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This paper investigates the impact of migration on Italian inbound tourism flows in a dynamic panel data framework. Arrivals, expenditure and nights from 65 countries are analyzed for the period 2005-2011. The migration variable is defined at both origin and destination in order to assess the pushing and pulling forces. Estimates are performed using both aggregated flows and flows disaggregated to separate the VFRs from two non-VFR categories, namely holiday and business. The results suggest the presence of a strong migration-tourism nexus which clearly goes beyond visiting friends and relatives. Moreover, the effects of the different determinants vary according to the way in which the tourism market is segmented and, within each segment, to the way in which tourism demand is measured.

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A paradigmatic discussion for the study of immigrant hosts

Cited by 31 publications

References 66 publications

Hosting Friends Versus Hosting Relatives: Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

Hosting Friends Versus Hosting Relatives: Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

Migration and inbound tourism: an Italian perspective

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