VFR Travel Research International Perspectives

by Backer, Elisa; King, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781845415181
• ISBN10: 1845415183
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-01
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In many countries VFR is the largest single travel-related market and for some regional economies accounts for over half of all tourism flows. In assembling an international collection of quality VFR-related research the editors present the profiles, characteristics, opportunities and behaviours of VFR travel for the benefit of researchers, industry practitioners and educators. This holistic and international approach to understanding VFR travel provides a state of the art understanding of the context, dynamics and implications of VFR travel and will be an essential resource for postgraduate students, researchers and also practitioners.

Author Biography

Elisa Backer is Associate Professor at Federation University Australia and is on the editorial board of nine journals. Her main research interests are VFR travel, destination marketing, partial industrialisation in tourism, family tourism and social media.Brian King is Professor and Associate Dean at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is joint editor-in-chief of the journal Tourism, Culture and Communication. His research focuses on tourism marketing with an emphasis on cultural dimensions and emerging markets, tourism and migration, international education and tourism.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Elisa Backer and Brian King: VFR Travel: Progressing Towards Greater Recognition

Chapter 2 Elisa Backer and Alastair Morrison: The value and contributions of VFR to destinations and destination marketing

Chapter 3 Tony Seaton and Caroline Tie: Are Relatives Friends? Disaggregating VFR Travel 1994-2014

Chapter 4 Brian King and Larry Dwyer: The VFR and Migration Nexus – the impacts of migration on inbound and outbound Australian VFR travel

Chapter 5 Elisa Backer: VFR Travel: its true dimensions

Chapter 6 Tom Griffin: The Experience and Implications of Immigrant Hosts

Chapter 7 Elisa Backer and Brian Hay: Implementing VFR Travel Strategies

Chapter 8 Zahed Ghaderi: Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel: the case of Iran

Chapter 9 Joseph T. O'Leary, Gyehee Lee, Jung Eun Kim and Nandini Nadkarni: Travel in the United States: An Examination of VFR Travel

Chapter 10 Christian M. Rogerson: VFR Travel in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of South Africa

Chapter 11 Antonino Mario Oliveri: The VFR Phenomenon in Italy

Chapter 12 Hamed M Al Suwaidi, Shabbar Jaffry, Alexandros Apostolakis: Examining Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Demand in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Chapter 13 Jenny Cave and C. Michael Hall: Do Families Hold the Pacific Together? VFR, Voyaging, and New Expressions of Diasporic Networks

Chapter 14 Elisa Backer and Brian King: Local Impacts, Global Prospects: The Future of VFR Travel