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Travelling families contribute significantly to the domestic tourism market in South Africa. This study aimed to determine why families go on holiday and what their needs are during a holiday from the perspective of a mother. A quantitative study was undertaken, and 115 responses were obtained. A typical mother travelling with her family was depicted, paired with the required amenities such as Wi-Fi, kids' entertainment and washing machines. It was further determined that mothers go on holiday, mainly to spend time with their families. The results further indicated that mothers’ quality of life was positively impacted by single families going on holiday, every six months and they reported being less stressed after the holiday. Concluding, the more family members join in on a holiday, the more challenging it may be to maintain a positive quality of life. Recommendations include providing the required amenities and accommodating families to ensure a good quality of life. The optimal family holidays would be with the least amount of extended family members and limiting holidays to once every six months. The results of this study will guide family accommodation establishments on what to focus on in their service offering should they want to attract more families.

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Previous studies have shown how student circuits of consumption are mediated by the interest of commercial actors. However, little attention has been paid to the connections between international student stays and the tourism sector: how they intersect with each other? Our fieldwork in Lisbon (Portugal) showed the central role of student organizations in commercializing the leisure time of international students, approaching them to 'circuits of travel' and consumption populated also by tourists. Filling a gap in the literature, we conceptualize international students as consumers surrounded by entertainment industries, pointing out the centrality of touristic infrastructures and destination marketing in articulating their stays. Therefore, we argue that these organizations, in their partnership with tourism and leisure sectors, are contributing to the socio‐spatial segregation between local and international students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent believer in individual freedom and self-development; consequently, she frequently discussed the possibilities of women’s education and self-reliance in her writings. Being rather reckless in her life, she was often on the move, not only searching for better life conditions but also following her own impulses in her critical reading. The motif of intellectual mobility features her educational writings, argumentative works, novels, and her last publication, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796) as well. In my paper, I will map the multiplicity of the concept of mobility and elaborate on the senses of escapism in Wollstonecraft’s travel-letters, moving beyond Laurence Sterne’s notion of “a sentimental journey” (A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, 1768). Moreover, in Letters, in her solitary walks and fanciful reveries, not only Wollstonecraft’s inclination to the (natural and textual) sublime but also Rousseau’s ideas on exercise and movement will be detected (cf. Reveries of the Solitary Walker, 1782). On the one hand, my interpretation is contextualised by the late-eighteenth-century view on women’s limitations of “sensibility”, displaying the constraints the age demanded; on the other hand, I intend to place the travelogue in Mary Wollstonecraft’s oeuvre and highlight the synthesising quality of the writing as a piece of “travail” and/or “a labour of love”.

Using rich individual-level data, this study examines the effect of travelling on mental health in Italy. Italy is characterized by high coronavirus transmission rates during the early stages of the pandemic. Our findings confirm the existence of heterogeneous effects of domestic versus international travelling on anxiety. We find that international travelling is positively associated with anxiety, while domestic travel reduced anxiety among Italian travellers during the pandemic. There is also evidence suggesting that female travellers experience better mental health than male travellers when they travelled abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On several layers, Fortunatus can be described as a liminal text. This does not only apply to the level of materiality or the readership of the novel but in particular to content and structure. Using an anthropological perspective and assessing the numerous transitions which the main protagonists, Fortunatus and his son Andolosia, undergo, this article demonstrates that these transitions ultimately result in the different outcomes for the two generations. In addition, the woodcuts of the text's first edition undermine this reading through their arrangement. In conclusion, the structural order in combination with its figurative elaboration shape the character of the text as a negotiation of rites of passage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper is focused on the representation of interwar Soviet Russia, which can be seen in Bulgarian travelogues -- Ana Karima's "In Russia today" (1928), Dr Hristo Stoykov's "In Soviet Russia" (1930) and prof. Asen Zlatarov's "In the Soviets' Country" (1936). The country is presented in the process of constant change, during which the façade of the old monarchic Russia disappears behind the major architectural changes of Soviet Russia. The article analyses the travelers' attempts to be as objective as possible in their observations and depictions for the Bulgarian reader and to capture the current image of the ideological rebuild of the Russian reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Relying primarily on the analyses and suggestions by Rancière and Lévi-Strauss, the authors of this paper endeavour to present a critique of the hierarchically valued landmarks of travelling and education. The first part of the paper is dedicated to Western travellers and their 'civilizing' treatment of other landscapes and peoples, previously unknown. The second part of the paper identifies an analogous pattern when it comes to relationship established in the educational process, where the new and the unknown also have to be mastered, conquered, and subdued by unquestionable knowledge. The conclusion suggests the possibility of deconstructing the predefined system of civilization and/or knowledge, with a view to creating the possibility for the affirmation of differences without domination, as well as learning without an unambiguous explanation, a possibility that may perhaps materialise with the abandoning of the illusion about the universal authority of Knowledge and its possessor.

The paper aims to examine the travel habits of Generation Y and Generation Z representatives after the coronavirus pandemic among Slovak and Hungarian respondents. To this end, primary data was collected using a questionnaire survey in the first half of 2022. Five hypotheses were formulated and tested with the Chi-square test in the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 software during the research. According to the results, generation Y spends, on average, a higher amount per trip than Generation Z. Both generations like to travel domestically and abroad. For Generation Y, one-week trips are the most typical; for Generation Z, shorter trips of 2-3 days. The two generations are similar in that they often find out about their chosen destination online before travelling. The most important sources of information about destinations for both generations are previous personal experiences, the opinions of friends and acquaintances, and reviews written on travel websites. Generation Y and Z also showed similarities in which factors are most important when choosing a trip. These are the price, the time spent there, the attractions and the accommodation. The length of travel time and available services are more important to Generation Y, and the choice of programs to Generation Z. It is more characteristic of Generation Y that they consider travelling a good opportunity to spend time with the family and that they consider it important to be able to reach the host online. On the other hand, Generation Z considers it more important that travel be cheap. In the case of the two generations, there was no difference in whether they recommended the destinations to their friends or whether they returned to the same place. The study supports the results of certain previous research conducted among travellers from Slovakia and Hungary but also identifies similarities and differences in the travel habits of travellers from the two countries from a generational point of view. The results help travel agencies, specialists, and websites promote destinations in what aspects they should consider if they want to sell travel to Generation Y or Z. In the case of the two generations, there were more similarities than differences in travel habits. Professionals, marketing agencies and tourist destinations should be aware of these similarities and differences when determining their marketing communication target group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study traces changes in 19th-century Czech retellings of Robinson Crusoe, from the Czech translations of German adaptations by Joachim Heinrich Campe, Gustav Adolf Gräbner, and Karl Rudolf Oskar Höcker, to the original Czech retellings by Pavel Josef Šulc, František Doucha, Jan V. Novák, Antonín Mojžíš, and others. This tradition is analysed in connection to changes in contemporary travel literature, with special attention to certain mutual coincidences: for example, the fact that travel literature, from early on, was influenced by such literary topoi as the shipwreck, life on a deserted island, encounter with the other, duels with pirates, etc. These topoi provided the frameworks and methods for writing travel literature; conversely, the stories of real journeys influenced the writing of novels. This mutual coincidence is not unique to Czech literary culture, as the author illustrates through the example of 18th-century adaptations of Robinson Crusoe in the British context. Specific to the 19th-century Czech tradition is a tendency to present the story as a ‘scientific type’ of travelogue, where the narrator serves as a kind of note-taking apparatus, providing expert explanatory notes, and in which the fictional story is set in a specific context (geographical, historical, cultural, or botanical-zoological) in its contemporary world.

The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced not only the global economy, all types of industry and education, but it has changed our everyday life. An affluence of studies investigating the impact of COVID-19 on people’s behaviour, both from a psychological, and from a sociological point of view has been found. Based on a data research of Google searches from December 2018 until December 2020, using Keyword Planner, we were able to analyse the trends of Romanians’ searches related to four categories: travelling, cooking, fitness or food delivery. Our results show that along with mental health, people’s habits when it comes to everyday activities have been significantly impacted since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Personal boundaries were challenged as home become the new office, the new gym, and the new classroom, all in one. Traveling abroad was replaced by staying at home or by tours within the borders of the country, while planes and public transportation were replaced by walking, riding bicycles, scooters or driving personal vehicles. Heading out for groceries or going out for dinner were substituted by a massive interest in cooking at home, shopping online or looking up for food delivery services. Moreso, gyms and churches were no longer an option for sports addicts or for religious citizens during the lockdown phases. As both media and scholars signal, the pandemic has been a curse for most, a blessing for some.

Hair strands were taken from individuals of a travel group from Bavaria that stayed on the Lofoten Islands/Norway for 3 weeks. By means of serial stable isotope analyses of carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and hydrogen along the hair strands, food-specific changes during travel could be detected. The higher consumption of marine fish led to significant changes of the stable isotope values of nitrogen, sulphur and hydrogen. The highest differences for the values were found in the most proximal part of hair strands which were taken shortly after the trip. The basic values for the isotope distribution of the elements in the hair also indicate specific diets of some individuals that could be confirmed upon request. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A growing interdisciplinary literature examines the role of hair textures and styles in Black and mixed‐race women's identity performances. Through an analysis of travel narratives, this paper extends and complements research on the context‐dependency of racialized identity performances. This paper presents an analysis of 24 qualitative interviews with Black and mixed‐race women in England and Germany. The question it seeks to answer is: 'How do changes in context alter Black and mixed‐race women's hairstyling practices as a performance of identity?' Navigating a novel context could lead the women to (1) conform to local standards of beauty and femininity, (2) resist external expectations, (3) try out novel performances and (4) negotiate the complex performance of belonging. All in all, this paper shows that Black and mixed‐race women dialogically re/negotiated and performatively re/created how they identify and how they are identified by others as they moved from one context to another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vilém Pflanzer, a friend of Vojta Náprstek, travelled to America in 1847-48. On the basis of this trip, he kept a diary, which, together with the correspondence between him and Náprstek, is preserved in the archive of the Náprstek Museum. This study examines Pflanzer's journey, reflects on the phenomena he saw in America, and explores his later life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As an important psychological state, the sense of power has a widespread impact on consumers’ cognition, emotion, and behavior. In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in research on the impact of consumer sense of power. However, despite this growing literature, there has been no systematic review of work in this field. Therefore, there is a need for organization of previous research findings and clarification of future research topics. This paper reviews previous research based on the following five streams: (1) sense of power and compensatory consumption, (2) sense of power and communication effects of advertising, (3) sense of power and traveling, (4) sense of power and sustainable development goals (SDGs), and (5) sense of power and social crowding. The paper proposes that future research should (a) examine compensatory word of mouth (WOM), (b) focus on the location and visual elements of advertisements, and (c) consider the diversity of crowded environment settings.

Lawrence’s travel book, Twilight in Italy offers a good introduction to life in Italy before WW1. That is when, for the first time abroad, he and Frieda stayed in Gargnano by Lake Garda, (3rd September 1912 - 11th April 1913). Observing people there excited Lawrence’s interest in national character both in comparison with other Europeans and southern Italians. Lawrence had a particular instinct for perceiving the mood of Italy and its people as they were experiencing a major economic crisis which was soon to lead to the political unrest and the social turmoil of the “biennio rosso” (1919-1920). Indeed, there was a growing conviction on the part of the Italian working class that a socialist revolution was inevitable. However, in March 1919 Mussolini launched his Fascist movement and, in the autumn of 1920, his Fascist squads began their punitive expeditions resulting in an absolute social chaos. A number of Lawrence’s writings reflect his disillusion with post-war Italy. He did not miss the frustration that people showed, following the “unfair” treatment Italy received in the Versailles Treaty (1919). The emigration issue emerges too when the chauffeur of the bus he and Frieda are travelling on begs him to find him a job as a driver in England. Lawrence thinks then that emigrating had become some sort of disease, “Andare fuori dall’Italia. To go out of Italy. To go out-away—to go away—to go away. It has become a craving, a neurasthenia with them.” (“Sea and Sardinia”).

This study traces changes in 19th-century Czech retellings of Robinson Crusoe, from the Czech translations of German adaptations by Joachim Heinrich Campe, Gustav Adolf Gräbner, and Karl Rudolf Oskar Höcker, to the original Czech retellings by Pavel Josef Šulc, František Doucha, Jan V. Novák, Antonín Mojžíš, and others. This tradition is analysed in connection to changes in contemporary travel literature, with special attention to certain mutual coincidences: for example, the fact that travel literature, from early on, was influenced by such literary topoi as the shipwreck, life on a deserted island, encounter with the other, duels with pirates, etc. These topoi provided the frameworks and methods for writing travel literature; conversely, the stories of real journeys influenced the writing of novels. This mutual coincidence is not unique to Czech literary culture, as the author illustrates through the example of 18th-century adaptations of Robinson Crusoe in the British context. Specific to the 19th-century Czech tradition is a tendency to present the story as a ‘scientific type’ of travelogue, where the narrator serves as a kind of note-taking apparatus, providing expert explanatory notes, and in which the fictional story is set in a specific context (geographical, historical, cultural, or botanical-zoological) in its contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Around the middle of the ninth/fifteenth century, the Egyptian court physician Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad Muẓaffar al-Dīn al-'Ayntābī, also known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī (812/1409–902/1496), compiled a short health-guide for travellers dedicated to a prominent member of the Mamlūk administration, Muḥammad al-Juhanī al-Bārizī (796/1394–856/1452). As mentioned in its incipit, the scope of the booklet, entitled al-Isfār ʽan ḥukm al-asfār, was to accompany al-Bārizī in the pilgrimage to Mecca and provide him with the medical information necessary to keep healthy and cure sickness during the journey. By analysing the structure and contents of the unedited manuscript of this "provision for travellers", this article discusses how Ibn al-Amshāṭī, mostly engaged with scholarly works, collected, organized and adapted scientific knowledge in a booklet for a non-professional readership. By looking into this process of knowledge transmission and adaptation, this article seeks to contribute to the re-evaluation of Mamlūk literary heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The traditional design fires commonly considered in structural fire engineering, like the standard fire and Eurocode parametric fires, were developed several decades ago based on experimental compartments smaller than 100 m2 in floor area. These experiments led to the inherent assumption of flashover in design fires and that the temperatures and burning conditions are uniform in the whole of the compartment, regardless of its size. However, modern office buildings often have much larger open-plan floor areas (e.g. the Shard in London has a floor area of 1600 m2) where non-uniform fire conditions are likely to occur. This paper presents observations from a large-scale fire experiment x-ONE conducted inside a concrete farm building in Poland. The objective of x-ONE was to capture experimentally a natural fire inside a large and open plan compartment. With an open-plan floor area of 380 m2, x-ONE is the largest compartment fire experiment carried out to date. The fire was ignited at one end of the compartment and allowed to spread across a continuous wood crib (fuel load ~ 370 MJ/m2). A travelling fire with clear leading and trailing edges was observed spreading along 29 m of the compartment length. The flame spread rate was not constant but accelerated with time from 3 mm/s to 167 mm/s resulting in a gradually changing fire size. The fire travelled across the compartment and burned out at the far end 25 min after ignition. Flashover was not observed. The thermocouples and cameras installed along the fire path show clear near-field and far-field regions, indicating highly non-uniform spatial temperatures and burning within the compartment. The fire dynamics observed during this experiment are completely different to the fire dynamics reported in small scale compartments in previous literature and to the assumptions made in traditional design fires for structural design. This highlights the need for further research and experiments in large compartments to understand the fire dynamics and continue improving the safe design of modern buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced not only the global economy, all types of industry and education, but it has changed our everyday life. An affluence of studies investigating the impact of COVID-19 on people's behaviour, both from a psychological, and from a sociological point of view has been found. Based on a data research of Google searches from December 2018 until December 2020, using Keyword Planner, we were able to analyse the trends of Romanians' searches related to four categories: travelling, cooking, fitness or food delivery. Our results show that along with mental health, people's habits when it comes to everyday activities have been significantly impacted since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Personal boundaries were challenged as home become the new office, the new gym, and the new classroom, all in one. Traveling abroad was replaced by staying at home or by tours within the borders of the country, while planes and public transportation were replaced by walking, riding bicycles, scooters or driving personal vehicles. Heading out for groceries or going out for dinner were substituted by a massive interest in cooking at home, shopping online or looking up for food delivery services. Moreso, gyms and churches were no longer an option for sports addicts or for religious citizens during the lockdown phases. As both media and scholars signal, the pandemic has been a curse for most, a blessing for some. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ovid's Epistulae Heroidum is a collection of letters whose very existence originates in the concept of travelling, as the letter-writers' lamentation is triggered by the literal journey of their beloved and the inability to overcome the obstacle of spatial distance. The crucial role attributed to the journey motif throughout the collection is the focus of this discussion. This article explores distinctive manifestations of the travel metaphor in selected letters of the Heroides, with emphasis on the travelling ships and the travelling inscriptions, to reveal the associations between the imago of travelling and the female lamentation. The study will eventually put forward the claim that as the literal journey activates a literary voyage of writing, travelling becomes a metaphor for 'reading'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Rapid public health response is important in controlling the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this study, we described the public health response received by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia in managing the first local transmission cluster of COVID-19 related to mass-gathering and inter-state traveling to celebrate a festival. Methods: We summarized strategies implemented by the Malaysia Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) in managing the first local transmission of COVID-19. We collected information related to the epidemiological investigation of this cluster and described the inter-state network in managing the outbreak. Results: This first local transmission of COVID-19 in Malaysia had a history of contact with her older brother, the index case, who was the first Malaysian imported case. Only two positive cases were detected out of 59 contacts traced from the index case. Close contacts with infected person/s, inter-state movement, and public/family gatherings were identified as the sources of transmission. A large number of contacts were traced from inter-state traveling, and family gatherings during the festive season, and health consultations and treatment. Conclusion: Close contacts from inter-state movement and public/family gatherings were identified as the source of transmission. Family or public gatherings during festivals or religious events should be prohibited or controlled in COVID-19 prevalent areas. A structured surveillance system with rapid contact tracing is significant in controlling the transmission of COVID-19 in the community.

This paper is about Adeline Paulina Irby, an English lady. She left deep trace and indelible mark in memory of Serbs from Bosnia and Old Serbia (Kosovo and Metohija). Furthermore, it is focused on her journey through whole "European Turkey" (the Balkans) where she was acquainted with living conditions of the Christians there. She informed England and the whole western world about it. For that purpose, she travelled through Old Serbia-Kosovo and Metohija. Irby broke all the stereotypes Western World adhered to, in the first place stereotypes about "wild Slaves living in the Balkans". Irby presented to English reader the whole truth about Serbian nation whose Empire was conquered by Ottomans. Paper is particularly focused on her humanitarian work.

White whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Svalbard remain near the coast much of the year, spending most of their time in front of tidewater glaciers. In this article, the diving behaviour of adult male white whales in Svalbard (N = 16) is presented based on satellite-relay data loggers that record time and depth of diving as well as positions. The loggers transmitted data for an average of 87 ± 52 days (range 2–163 days). After filtering, 55 359 dives were available for the study. Most of the dives were extremely shallow (13 ± 26 m, maximum 350 m) and of short duration (97 ± 123 s, maximum 31.4 min). At tidewater glacier fronts, the white whales optimized their time at the bottom of dives and spent longer periods resting at the surface after dives, in accordance with what would be expected when foraging. This behaviour was also documented when animals were out in the fjords. When the whales moved between areas around the archipelago, they swam close to the coast, staying right below the surface most of the time, presumably to minimize energy expenditure during transits. When sea ice formed during the winter, the whales were forced offshore into somewhat deeper areas with drifting ice. In these areas, the whales minimized time at the surface and dove somewhat deeper, sometimes reaching the bottom, presumably to feed on neritic prey.

Fluctuations in market demands, increased mobility of workers and changing employment practices as well as companies’ increased respect for individual differences of workers have led to the phenomenon that workers with large efficiency differences work together in the same production line in manufacturing companies. In a traditional travelling production line (TrPL), low-efficiency workers can block the work of higher efficiency workers. To increase the production capacity of a travelling line composed of workers with different efficiencies, a chasing-overtaking mechanism was established and used to achieve line production capacity and efficiency improvement. A formula to calculate the production capacity of two workers with different efficiencies was derived and validated. A simulation performed to analyse the differences between the ‘chasing-overtaking’ production line (COPL), TrPL and the classic ‘bucket brigade’ production line (BBPL) with respect to production capacity, working time utilisation and equipment utilisation demonstrated that the COPL provides good production capacity and adaptability to worker differences. Finally, the statistical analysis verified that the COPL has a higher production capacity, average worker working hour utilisation rate and equipment utilisation rate than the BBPL and TrPL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to look in Bryon’s work Childe Harold for elements of Romantic Liberalism, in particular for his depiction of the liberal nation-state. Byron’s work is critical of the state of the world in the British Romantic period. Liberalism and nationalism and inseparable in Romantic Britain.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the topic of the liberal nation-state in Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.This work is significant as it includes the beginnings of the liberal ideology. The paper will show that, during the times of British Romanticism, liberalism and nationalism coincided. The context of these times will be analysed in parallel with the Populist ideology nowadays to which it bears certain resemblances. Last, but not least, the issue of whether there is ideology or not in an apparent wish to do away with ideology in the call of the Romantic poets will be researched.

Global crises such as the climate crisis require fast concerted action, but individual and structural barriers prevent a socio-ecological transformation in crucial areas such as the mobility sector. An identification with people all over the world (i.e., global identity) and an openness toward less consumption (i.e., sufficiency orientation) may represent psychological drivers of a socio-ecological transformation. We examined the compatibility of both concepts as well as their relation to people’s support of a decarbonised mobility system and their flight mobility behaviour – a CO2-intensive behaviour that may be particularly difficult to refrain from for globally identified people, but less so for sufficiency-oriented people. In an online study conducted in Germany (N = 317), we found that global identity and sufficiency orientation were positively related. Both were negatively related to past flight-related CO2 emissions and positively related to refraining from flying and the support of decarbonised mobility policies. Accounting for both showed that sufficiency orientation in particular was related to fewer flight-related CO2 emissions and refraining from flying. Furthermore, we examined people’s travel experiences. While global identity was unrelated to the frequency and duration of international travelling, it was positively related to the frequency and quality of contact with local people met on journeys. An experimental variation of whether participants first answered questions on global identity or on travel experiences revealed that remembering past international travelling led to higher reported levels of global identity. Taken together, global identity seems to profit from in-depth international contact with people, but can be decoupled from resource-intensive travel behaviour. Globally identified and sufficiency-oriented people may support a socio-ecological transformation. Our results indicate a compatibility of global identity and sufficiency orientation. Experimental and longitudinal research should examine causal links to foster our understanding of the conditions under which both can be strengthened.

Global crises such as the climate crisis require fast concerted action, but individual and structural barriers prevent a socio-ecological transformation in crucial areas such as the mobility sector. An identification with people all over the world (i.e., global identity) and an openness toward less consumption (i.e., sufficiency orientation) may represent psychological drivers of a socio-ecological transformation. We examined the compatibility of both concepts as well as their relation to people's support of a decarbonised mobility system and their flight mobility behaviour – a CO2-intensive behaviour that may be particularly difficult to refrain from for globally identified people, but less so for sufficiency-oriented people. In an online study conducted in Germany (N = 317), we found that global identity and sufficiency orientation were positively related. Both were negatively related to past flight-related CO2 emissions and positively related to refraining from flying and the support of decarbonised mobility policies. Accounting for both showed that sufficiency orientation in particular was related to fewer flight-related CO2 emissions and refraining from flying. Furthermore, we examined people's travel experiences. While global identity was unrelated to the frequency and duration of international travelling, it was positively related to the frequency and quality of contact with local people met on journeys. An experimental variation of whether participants first answered questions on global identity or on travel experiences revealed that remembering past international travelling led to higher reported levels of global identity. Taken together, global identity seems to profit from in-depth international contact with people, but can be decoupled from resource-intensive travel behaviour. Globally identified and sufficiency-oriented people may support a socio-ecological transformation. Our results indicate a compatibility of global identity and sufficiency orientation. Experimental and longitudinal research should examine causal links to foster our understanding of the conditions under which both can be strengthened. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Japanese travellers' narratives of food in early twentieth-century colonial India. It focuses on three travellers' journeys in and around the 1920s and explores their eating experiences in detail along with their analyses of 'native' dietary habits in local society. These travellers utilised 'modern' facilities for dining that had been developed for the British and other Europeans in colonial India, and tasted food that was the product of interaction and negotiation between the 'coloniser' and the 'colonised'. They also observed the often-contrasting food habits and taboos of people from different classes, castes, and religious communities, which significantly influenced their views of India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]