VFR travel research : international perspectives /

VFR travel research : international perspectives / Visiting friends and relatives travel research edited by Elisa Backer and Brian King. - Bristol : Channel View Pub., 2015. - xi, 226 pages ; 24 cm. - Aspects of tourism ; 69 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

VFR travel : progressing towards greater recognition / Elisa Backer and Brian King -- The value and contributions of VFR to destinations and destination / Elisa Backer and Alastair Morrison -- Are relatives friends? : disaggregating VFR travel, 1994-2014 / Tony Seaton and Caroline Tie -- The VFR and migration nexus : the impacts of migration on inbound and outbound Australian VFR travel / Brian King and Larry Dwyer -- VFR travel : its true dimensions / Elisa Backer -- The experience and implications of immigrant hosts / Tom Griffin -- Implementing VFR travel strategies / Elisa Backer and Brian Hay -- Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel : the case of Iran / Zahed Ghaderi -- Travel in the United States : an examination of VFR travel / Joseph T. O'Leary, Gyehee Lee, Jung Eun Kim and Nandini Nadkarni -- VFR travel in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of South Africa / Christian M. Rogerson: -- The VFR phenomenon in Italy / Antonino Mario Oliveri -- Examining visiting friends and relatives (VFR) demand in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / Hamed M Al Suwaidi, Shabbar Jaffry, Alexandros Apostolakis -- Do families hold the Pacific together? : VFR, voyaging, and new expressions of diasporic networks / Jenny Cave and C. Michael Hall -- Local impacts, global prospects : the future of VFR travel / Elisa Backer and Brian King.

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Tourism--Research.
Tourism--Social aspects.
Families.
Friendship.

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