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Social Networks and Travel Behaviour
In aiming to understand and model peoples’ out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. Firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel, being less rigid in temporal and spatial patterns and more influenced by external factors such as social contacts or weather conditions. Secondly, traditional aggregated transport models do not include any information on peoples’ social interactions or their personal social networks. In contrast, the recent development and availability of disaggregated models allows more detailed modelling of elements such as individual characteristi...
Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course
This thought-provoking book analyses recent innovations for researching travel behaviour over the life course. Original in its approach, it synthesises quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to contribute to conceptual, methodological and empirical advancements in the field.
Mobilities, Networks, Geographies
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities that form and reform these geographies of networks and travel in the contemporary world. These are: p...
Standortfaktor Tourismus und Wissenschaft
Tourismus und Tourismus-Wissenschaft sind Standortfaktoren für Regionen und Städte. Was gilt es zu tun, um ihre Strahlkraft auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft weiter zu stärken? Im Buch von Walter Freyer, Michaela Naumann und Alexander Schuler reflektieren Experten aus dem In- und Ausland die Rolle des Tourismus für die Entwicklung von Städten und Regionen: Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisempfehlungen für die Ansiedlung von Tourismusunternehmen, den touristischen Wettbewerb und ein kreatives Standortmarketing!
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