This volume brings together established and emerging writers concerned with men's global mobilities and their experiences of and within travel and tourism. Although there is existing work that has focused on gender and tourism, the emphasis on men, masculinities and tourism has been rather limited. While the implicit masculine position of the tourist gaze has been questioned, understandings of specific male tourists have often failed to engage with the gendered notions of independence, adventure, embodiment and 'risk' that underpin much tourism experience and practice. The authors gathered here draw upon a pool of experience and research. In particular, the collection reflects the multiple ways that men 'do' masculinity as they travel and interact with other men or women. The volume offers insights into men's tourism from as far afield as Mexico, the US, China, Taiwan, western and eastern Europe, and more localised identities in the UK.

Thomas Thurnell-Read is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Coventry University, UK. His work explores identity and, in particular, masculinity in relation to leisure and consumption practices. His research interests also include the sociological study of alcohol.

Mark Casey is Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. He has published on gay male travel in Australia and is currently undertaking research on the island of Mallorca and its British expatriate communities.

1.Introduction; Mark Casey and Thomas Thurnell-Read
PART I: HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY, TRAVEL AND TOURISM
2.Masculinity, Tourism and Adventure in English Nineteenth-Century Travel Fiction; Helen Goodman
3.Heroes and Villains: Travel, Risk and Masculinity; Kristin Lozanski
4.'Just Blokes doing Blokes' Stuff': Risk, Gender and the Collective Performance of Masculinity during the Eastern European Stag Tour Weekend; Thomas Thurnell-Read
5.Masculinity and the Gay Games: A Consideration of Hegemonic and Queer Debates; Nigel Jarvis
PART II: MASCULINITIES, TOURISM AND IDENTITY
6.Working Class Men's Masculinities on the Spanish Costas: Watching ITV's Benidorm; Mark Casey
7.'You Get a Reputation if You're From the Valleys': The Stigmatisation of Place in Young Working Class Men's Lives; Michael R. M. Ward
8.'I Don't Want to Think I am a Prostitute': Embodied Geographies of Men, Masculinities and Clubbing in Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia; Gordon Waitt and Kevin Markwell
9.Ephemeral Masculinities? Tracking Men, Partners and Fathers in the Geography of Family Holidays; Rosalina Costa
PART III: SEX, SEXUALITY, TOURISM AND MASCULINITY
10. Taiwanese Men's Wife Finding Tours in Southeast Asian Countries and China; Chun-Yu Lin
11. Risky Business: How Gender, Race and Culture influence the Culture of Risk-Taking among Sex Tourists; Yasmina Katsulis
12. Recognising Homoeroticism in Male Gay Tourism: A Mexican Perspective; Carlos Monterrubio and Álvaro López-López
PART IV: EMBODYING MASCULINE TRAVEL
13. The Lads Just Playing Away: An Ethnography with England's Hooligan Fringe during the 2006 World Cup; James Treadwell
14. What is Old and What is New? Representation of Masculinity in Travel Brochures; Monica Gilli and Elisbetta Ruspini
15. Afterword: Men's Touristic Practices: How Men Think They're Men and Know Their Place; Hazel Andrews