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Tourist Mobility as an Experience Maker: Understanding the Blank Space

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This chapter introduces the necessary definitions, assumptions and delimitations on mobility, experience and affect. It presents the main theories behind their conceptualisation. Four streams of literature are reconstructed for this purpose: transport and mobilities geographies, experience economy and affective science. The interdisciplinary integration of these four perspectives allows the assessment of mobility as an experience-maker in tourism and introduces the theoretical framework of the mobility space and journey experiences.

Mobility […] is more central to both the world and our understanding of it than ever before. And yet mobility itself, and what it means, remains [sic] unspecified. It is a kind of blank space that stands as an alternative to place, boundedness, foundations, and stability. This space needs examining.

Tim Cresswell (2006)

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Scuttari, A. (2019). Tourist Mobility as an Experience Maker: Understanding the Blank Space. In: Cycling and Motorcycling Tourism. Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17697-6_2

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