- Title
- VFR travel : Its true dimensions
- Creator
- Backer, Elisa
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/96331
- Identifier
- vital:10111
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-84541-517-4
- Abstract
- Introduction - As outlined in Chapter 1, VFR travel is a form of tourism that is substantial in scale and can be beneficial to industry operators. As the oldest form of travel (Backer, 2011) it is therefore surprising that tourism academic research only commenced in 1990 and that, relative to its size, little research has been done. Seven reasons outlining why VFR travel has been neglected were outlined in 2007 (Backer, 2007) and an eighth was subsequently added (Backer, 2010a). These reasons are presented in Chapter 7 of this book. However, a number of them warrant discussion in this fifth chapter. One of these reasons in 'tourism textbooks'. Despite its size, VFR travel is given, at best, a cursory mention in tourism textbooks and VFR has minimal presence in the relevant texts (Backer, 2009). Present by way of a single column or table, or by a few paragraphs at best, VFR barely makes it to the index of many tourism textbooks and does not even rate a place in the index of the others. Some improvement in coverage has occurred recently (for example Morrison, 2013; Weaver & Lawton, 2015). However, this still falls short of having a chapter or a book dedicated to such a sizeable field.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications
- Relation
- VFR travel research : International perspectives p. 59-72
- Rights
- Copyright 2015 Elisa Backer
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- VFR travel
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