Ostensibly tourism can be seen as a form of mobility on a continuum where it involves a temporary overnight stay in a  destination that is not home, in contrast to  migration as another form of mobility that involves a more or less permanent movement to another destination that is again rarely seen as home. However, it is argued that tourism is not just a form of mobility like other forms (such as commuting or migration) but that different mobilities, in the plural, inform and are informed by tourism (Sheller and Urry 2004). Such mobilities involve movements of people, of a whole range of material things, of more intangible thoughts and fantasies, and a range of transport and communicative technologies both old and new.

Proponents of the mobilities  paradigm argue that the concept is concerned with a critical evaluation of the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world and the more local processes of daily  transportation, movement through...