VFR travel research
Subtitle: international perspectives
By: edited by Elisa Backer and Brian King
Series: Aspects of tourism -- 69
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781845415181; 9781845415174; 9781845415198
Subjects: Social aspects; Tourism; Families; Friendship; Research
Other titles: Visiting friends and relatives travel research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: VFR travel : progressing towards greater recognition / Elisa Backer and Brian King; title: The value and contributions of VFR to destinations and destination / Elisa Backer and Alastair Morrison; title: Are relatives friends? : disaggregating VFR travel, 1994-2014 / Tony Seaton and Caroline Tie; title: The VFR and migration nexus : the impacts of migration on inbound and outbound Australian VFR travel / Brian King and Larry Dwyer; title: VFR travel : its true dimensions / Elisa Backer; title: The experience and implications of immigrant hosts / Tom Griffin; title: Implementing VFR travel strategies / Elisa Backer and Brian Hay; title: Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel : the case of Iran / Zahed Ghaderi; title: Travel in the United States : an examination of VFR travel / Joseph T. O'Leary, Gyehee Lee, Jung Eun Kim and Nandini Nadkarni; title: VFR travel in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of South Africa / Christian M. Rogerson:; title: The VFR phenomenon in Italy / Antonino Mario Oliveri; title: Examining visiting friends and relatives (VFR) demand in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / Hamed M Al Suwaidi, Shabbar Jaffry, Alexandros Apostolakis; title: Do families hold the Pacific together? : VFR, voyaging, and new expressions of diasporic networks / Jenny Cave and C. Michael Hall; title: Local impacts, global prospects : the future of VFR travel / Elisa Backer and Brian King.