✍ Scribed by Adam Weaver
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This paper explores the relationship between credit cards and contemporary travel. The credit card has transformed the way in which travel-related experiences are produced and consumed. Production-related activities within both the travel and credit card industries have, in certain ways, become rationalised, systematised and more co-ordinated. As a result, credit cards are widely accepted by travel providers around the world. The credit card has also altered travel-related consumption; in particular, pleasure travel and hedonism have become more accessible to a broad proportion of the population in many Western countries. This tension between rationalised production and pleasure-driven consumption underpins the travel industry and, more broadly, contemporary economies.
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