VFR Travel Research by Elisa Backer

VFR Travel Research by Elisa Backer

This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In assembling an international collection of quality VFR-related research the editors present the profiles, characteristics, opportunities and behaviours of VFR travel for the benefit of researchers, industry practitioners and educators.

This book seeks to examine the social and economic importance of the VFR (Visiting Friends and Relatives) market, and it does so successfullyGlobal examples are provided, and nuanced differences made – such as even questioning why the ‘F’ and the ‘R’ are grouped together in the all too familiar acronym ‘VFR’ when such distinct differences exist between families and friends. This book is a welcome addition to the tourism literature for the contribution it makes on what has thus far been a relatively under-researched area.

-- Chris Ryan, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Finally, a much needed book that explores the vitally important, but underappreciated area of VFR travel has been published. The book adopts a global perspective combining chapters that ground VFR travel well within existing tourism studies with case studies from almost every continent and deeper pieces conceptualizing. A book on this topic is long overdue and this book does not disappoint.

-- Bob McKercher, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

I would like to congratulate the editors and authors who contributed to this much needed book publication for highlighting an underappreciated but vitally important area of tourism research. (...) Most of the contributors of this edited book are themselves well established researchers in this area, and along with emergent researchers from around the world, doing a fine job in breaking down all those misconceptions about VFR travel.

-- Heike A. Schänzel, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand * Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 3 Issue: 1 *

Elisa Backer is Associate Professor at Federation University Australia and is on the editorial board of nine journals. Her main research interests are VFR travel, destination marketing, partial industrialisation in tourism, family tourism and social media.

Brian King is Professor and Associate Dean at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is joint editor-in-chief of the journal Tourism, Culture and Communication. His research focuses on tourism marketing with an emphasis on cultural dimensions and emerging markets, tourism and migration, international education and tourism.

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ISBN 13	9781845415174
ISBN 10	1845415175
Title	VFR Travel Research
Author	Elisa Backer
Series	Aspects Of Tourism
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Channel View Publications Ltd
Year published	2015-06-01
Number of pages	226
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.