Hosting as social practice: Gendered insights into contemporary tourism mobilities

Hania Janta and Anastasia Christou

Annals of Tourism Research, 2019, vol. 74, issue C, 167-176

Abstract: By giving voice to highly-skilled mobile professional women who have relocated to Switzerland from various European countries, representing different nationalities, duration of migration and family circumstances, we shed light on the experiences of hosting – an under-researched segment of Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) mobilities. Our findings reveal a threefold investigation to sociality, tourism and mobility, by drawing on empirical insights to three angles: that of, culture, intimacy and identity as pathways to transformative social practices among hosts and guests. Highly-skilled mobile professional women’s hosting practices reflect a laboratory of sociality whereupon relations of closeness and proximity are tested under new conditions of social and private life in the new destination country.

Keywords: Visiting friends and relatives; Sociality; Hosting; Gendered tourism; Highly-skilled mobile professional women; Transnational care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2018.11.008

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