1st Edition
The Study of Tourism Past Trends and Future Directions
By Richard Sharpley
Copyright 2011
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Introduction 1. So Why Study Tourism? 2. The Study of Tourism: Where we are Now 3. The Contemporary Study of Tourism: Approaches and Critiques 4. The Study of Tourism: Future Directions
Biography
Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
