While there is a saturation of car mileage per head in developed countries, international air
travel has grown rapidly until 2020, making it crucial to better understand its drivers. An often …

With the rapid expansion of the global aviation industry, especially in the Eurasian continent,
understanding the factors driving interregional air passenger flow is of increasing …

Hosting behaviours and experiences have gradually been acknowledged as influential
factors in visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel. However, the challenges facing VFR …

Participation in leisure activities has been broadly shown to have positive impacts on
immigrant integration. Hosting Friends and Relatives (HFR) is a highly contextual leisure …

Purpose This paper aims to present the host experience of student hosts in Hong Kong, a
popular educational destination for international students from mainland China and other …

Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel hosts play a key role in influencing the trip
characteristics of their VFR travel parties and the decisions and activities within those travel …

Purpose Neither visitors of visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel nor hosts are
homogeneous segments (Griffin & Guttenberg, 2020). For this reason, this study aims to …

Within urban tourism VFR travel is a leading segment. The aim is to contribute to the limited
scholarship on VFR travel and African urban tourism. The focus is on student-centred VFR …

Sweden has 10 million inhabitants of which more than 30% are members of at least one
sports club. Typically, sports clubs are organized under the Swedish Sports Confederation …

This research note unveils a pivotal, yet underexplored, aspect of festival attendance: the
impact of Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) travel. Employing data from a 2019 attendee …