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The Study of Tourism - Past Trends and Future Directions (Paperback)
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The Study of Tourism - Past Trends and Future Directions (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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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,
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 uncertainty over its role and future direction. This volume
aims to critically explore this paradoxical situation and to
consider the future direction of the study of tourism. It charts
the development of tourism as an area of study, analyzing
approaches taken from an international context; it critiques
contemporary epistemologies of tourism framed around the social
science vs. management dichotomy and offers alternative approaches
to the study of tourism. In doing so, it engages directly with a
range of important academic debates: what tourism 'is' in an
academic context, the purpose of studying tourism and how it should
be studied in the future. This important and stimulating volume
will have global appeal to higher level students, academics and
researchers within tourism and related disciplines.
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