Society consists of boundless networks of diverse flows, interconnected by
nodes, such as “stations, hotels…resorts, airports, leisure complexes, and
cosmopolitan cities" (ibid, p. 12). However, the capacity of using these new mobility
opportunities is unequally distributed between, and within, contemporary societies
(Hannam, 2008). The mobilities model implicitly destabilizes some of the basic
common-sense binary concepts on which the sociological approach to tourism has
been unreflectively grounded