TY - BOOK AU - Backer,Elisa AU - King,Brian TI - VFR travel research: international perspectives T2 - Aspects of tourism SN - 9781845415174 AV - CIR G 155.A1 V57 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Bristol PB - Channel View Pub. KW - Tourism KW - Research KW - Social aspects KW - Families KW - Friendship N1 - 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 ER -