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Commentary: The Cultural Diffusion of Asian Innovations in Transport Mobilities (2014)
Journal Article
Hannam, K. (2014). Commentary: The Cultural Diffusion of Asian Innovations in Transport Mobilities. Transfers, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.3167/trans.2014.040308

In this brief commentary on the articles in this special section, I would like to relate them to more contemporary mobilities issues as well as the wider mobilities theoretical literature. In so doing, I seek to highlight and interrogate a key theme,... Read More about Commentary: The Cultural Diffusion of Asian Innovations in Transport Mobilities.

Journeys of inspiration: Working artists’ reflections on tourism (2014)
Journal Article
Whiting, J., & Hannam, K. (2014). Journeys of inspiration: Working artists’ reflections on tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 49, 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2014.08.007

While much recent research has been focused on aspects of creative tourism, relatively little has paid attention to the views of creative residents. In this paper we argue that romantically informed modes of travel are important to working artists. T... Read More about Journeys of inspiration: Working artists’ reflections on tourism.

Creativity, self-expression and leisure (2014)
Journal Article
Whiting, J., & Hannam, K. (2015). Creativity, self-expression and leisure. Leisure Studies, 34(3), 372-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.923494

The links between creativity, self-expression and leisure practices are underexplored within leisure literature. Despite research that documents the centrality of leisure as a worked-at process of self-actualisation and self-identity, the practice of... Read More about Creativity, self-expression and leisure.

Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure? (2014)
Journal Article
Knox, D., Hannam, K., Margry, P. J., Olsen, D. H., & Salazar, N. B. (2014). Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure?. Tourism Recreation Research, 39(2), 235-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2014.11081769

The metaphor of the tourist as pilgrim and tourism as a pilgrimage has been an important idea in tourism studies, reproduced in both academic and popular accounts with varying degrees of criticality. This research probe considers a number of differen... Read More about Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure?.