Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-03 DOI:10.1177/1468797620977543

Johanna Gustafsson

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Through a focus on the planning and making of family adoption return trips, this paper explores how the social meanings of money are entangled with family-making practices and family holidays. Adoption return trips are a global phenomenon, and travel agencies offer tailored adoption return-trip packages marketed as a type of family tourism. The new trend towards conducting adoption return trips as a family when children are still young is growing and has implications for families’ finances because return trips are expensive endeavours. Still, families prioritise these trips, raising them above purely economic values so they stand out as ‘priceless’. The empirical material consists of interviews with 10 Swedish transnational adoptive families. The analyses show that family adoption return trips, despite their original features, are yet one more way of doing family holidaying. Money becomes an important contribution for understanding how family life is being done in and through parental, child and family-holiday ideals, as well as family intimacy.

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领养回程:家庭旅游与金钱的社会意义

通过关注家庭领养返程的计划和制定，本文探讨了金钱的社会意义是如何与家庭实践和家庭假期纠缠在一起的。领养返程是一种全球现象，旅行社提供量身定制的领养返程套餐，作为一种家庭旅游的营销方式。在孩子还小的时候，全家一起进行领养返程旅行的新趋势正在增长，这对家庭的财务状况产生了影响，因为返程旅行是一项昂贵的努力。尽管如此，家庭还是会优先考虑这些旅行，把它们提升到单纯的经济价值之上，这样它们就能脱颖而出，成为“无价之宝”。实证材料包括对10个瑞典跨国收养家庭的访谈。分析表明，家庭领养返程旅行尽管有其原有的特点，但仍是家庭度假的另一种方式。金钱成为理解家庭生活是如何通过父母、孩子和家庭度假理想以及家庭亲密关系来完成的重要贡献。

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来源期刊

Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.