Acknowledgements
The author would like to acknowledge the kind invitation from Alan Lew to contribute this reflection. A version of this paper was presented at the RGS Annual Conference in London and thanks go to Dr Thomas Birtchnell for organising the session.
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Kevin Hannam
Kevin Hannam is professor of tourism mobilities in the Business School at Edinburgh Napier University, UK and a research affiliate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a founding co-editor of the journals Mobilities and Applied Mobilities (Routledge), co-author of the books Understanding Tourism (Sage) and Tourism and India (Routledge) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities Research, Moral Encounters in Tourism (Ashgate), Tourism and Leisure Mobilities and Event Mobilities (both with Routledge).