PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: World Tourism Organization, Visual Flight Rules, Costa Del Sol

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Jibai

Document Summary

Reasons for mobility work, seeking asylum, education, family, friends, new lifestyle, better weather, political instability, natural disasters, tourism. Movement of people, objects (animals), money and information through spaces. These movements include not only tourism but also the flow of everyday life through transport, migration and communication. To be mobile is to be part of the modern world" (urry 1995) Mobility involves displacement moving between locations a b (cresswell, 2008) Movements happen all over the world, at all scales, and are full of meaning. Factors contributing to greater mobility in contemporary societies. Broader economic and social trajectories globalisation of labour markets, capital. Increased level of cultural capital (language) accumulation, increased disposable income for leisure purposes. Transport and communication innovations globalisation of business trips, visiting friends and relatives, enabling temporary migration and peripatetic life styles, the expansion of teleworking. 5. 5 million of british citizens live abroad + 500 000 live abroad part of the year 1/10.