More mobility means more impact on climate change: prospects for household leisure mobility in France (original) (raw)

Current Issues in Tourism

Tourism mobilities are increasing over time and over space. However, while overall growth is clearly of significance, there is a need for a greater interrogation of some of the underlying assumptions made with respect to the nature of tourism mobility in the highly North American and Eurocentric English language tourism literature. Therefore, closer examination of mobilities in the so-called emerging economies that are becoming of growing importance with respect to aggregate tourism consumption and production may shed significant light on our understandings of tourism and associated mobilities. Keywords: mobility; immobility; globalisation; neoliberalism; mobility gap; academic fashion The paper is an introductory commentary to a cluster of papers on non-Western mobilities in Current Issues in Tourism featuring papers: Cohen, S., & Cohen, E. (2015a). A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions. Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1). doi:10.1080/13683500.2014.898617; Cohen, S., & Cohen, E. (2015b). Tourism mobilities from emerging world regions: A response to commentaries. Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1). doi:10.1080/13683500.2014.956705; Coles, T. (2015). Tourism mobilities: Still a current issue in tourism? Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1). doi:10.1080/13683500.2014.937325; Chen, J., & Chang, T. C. (2015). Mobilising tourism research in emerging world regions: Contributions and advances. Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1). doi:10.1080/13683500.2014.932337; Rogerson, C. (2015). Unpacking business tourism mobilities in sub-Saharan Africa. Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1). doi:10.1080/13683500.2014.898619. The version provided here is the page proof. For the authoritative version please consult the journal website.