International tourism integrates itself into the complex world of contemporary global affairs through its dependence on telecommunications technologies and its tolerance for widely fluctuating political, economic, and social conditions. A little-explored area which illustrates the relationship of telecommunications and tourism in terms of factors of globalization is the frequent traveler, and especially the frequent flyer program concept.
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