The Study of Tourism : Past Trends and Future Directions.

Over the last two decades, tourism has become firmly established as a recognized field of study and the focus of extensive academic research. There has been continual expansion in the provision of taught programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level, dramatic developments in the tourism literat...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sharpley, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Series:Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
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Summary:Over the last two decades, tourism has become firmly established as a recognized field of study and the focus of extensive academic research. There has been continual expansion in the provision of taught programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level, dramatic developments in the tourism literature and a growing community of tourism academics. Despite this explosion in the study of tourism, however, it is still struggling to achieve wider academic legitimacy, it remains to some extent divorced from the industry upon which it is focuses and, even within its academic ranks, there remains unc.
Physical Description:1 online resource (116 pages)
ISBN:9780203885048
020388504X
9780415482172
0415482178