Developments and key issues in tourism mobilities

• First paper to give a conceptual overview of tourism mobilities.
• Develops issues of the materialities of tourism mobilities.
• Examines automobilities in relation to tourism.
• Develops an understanding of the role of new technologies in changing tourism mobilities.
• Examines mobile methodologies for tourism research.

This paper examines key developments in recent tourism mobilities research. It begins by outlining the recent conceptualisation of tourism mobilities, arguing that it is not just that tourism is a form of mobility like other forms of mobility but that different mobilities inform and are informed by tourism. It then examines work which has been developed in terms of materialities, autmobilities and new technologies. It concludes by discussing mobile methodologies and some thoughts on future research directions.