This chapter focuses on those who are relatively immobile because of the economic and other structural and regulative mechanisms, such as class, race, gender and religion, which affect the economic and social capital of individuals in society and therefore their life chances, with respect to...

This chapter argues that television advertising representations at the tourism destination can communicate particular meanings about its peoples and values that may conflict with the projected images presented in the tourists' country of origin. The work presented in this chapter is part of a wider ...

This chapter calls attention to the positive benefits that women can find through travel. Using the pooled results of two separate qualitative studies into women's experiences of independent travel (one on Australian women's solo pleasure travel and the other on New Zealand women's business...