International business travel in the global economy * J. Beaverstock, B. Derudder, J. Faulconbridge and F. Witlox (eds)
本书通过11篇论文探讨商务旅行在全球资本主义中的核心作用，揭示航空旅行地理的多样性，适合研究全球化、交通地理和商业实践的学者阅读。
It would be impossible to review this book without reference to the movie Up in the Air and corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham’s (played by George Clooney) love affair with the perks that accrue to a frequent business traveler. Ensconced in a cocoon of status, which allows him to bypass lines at airport security checks and access exclusive lounges, Bingham personifies a number of the topics contained within this timely and engaging book. Performing a sensitive business function that is ill-suited for video conferencing, Clooney’s character embraces business travel as both vocation and recreation but in so doing loses touch with any real domestic life. But transcending the entertainment value of the movie, this book provides a wide range of important and engaging insight on a central means by which global capitalism functions that hitherto has received little attention from scholars. Emerging from an international workshop at Ghent University in Belgium held in January 2008, this edited volume of 11 different approaches to the study of business travel provides a welcome answer to the relative lack of study on this important topic. Beginning with an introductory forward by Brian Graham, which deftly sketches out the key contours of contestation within airline networking and aircraft strategies, this book offers an important framework around which future research in this area can build. Most importantly it refines our understanding of the diversity of geographies within air travel. Although the uneven nature of airline networks is well established, this book shows that within this geography, there is yet more variegation (ranging from the scale of the city to the person) within the experience of air travel.