Cultural Tourism and the Mobilities Paradigm

Hannam, Kevin

Abstract

his chapter reviews work from what has been termed the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2004). The mobilities paradigm arguably allows us to place travel and tourism at the centre of social and cultural life rather than at the margins. Such tourism mobilities are often viewed as being bound up with both everyday, mundane journeys as well as the exotic encounters that have been the mainstay of much analysis in cultural tourism. The study of cultural tourism landscapes, meanwhile, has frequently privileged the visual in terms of the tourist gaze. Thus tourism landscapes have been ‘read’ as relatively ‘flat’ representations in much previous research. On the other hand, more recent research has engaged with new theories to argue that cultural tourism is experienced through tourists’ own bodies through diverse mobility practices involving new technologies.

Citation

Hannam, K. (2012). Cultural Tourism and the Mobilities Paradigm. In The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203120958.ch17

• Online Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Publication Date: 2012-12
• Deposit Date: Aug 2, 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Book Title: The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism
• ISBN: 9780415523516
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203120958.ch17
• Keywords: new mobilities paradigm, tourism mobilities, cultural tourism,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/322648