Study of Tourism (Record no. 3053)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781138081154
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 45.99
Form of issue BB
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Original cataloging agency 01
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Subject category code KNP
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Subject category code KNSG
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Subject category code BUS081000
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Subject category code TRV000000
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Subject category code 338.4791
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Richard Sharpley
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Study of Tourism
Remainder of title Past Trends and Future Directions
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20170518
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 120 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note 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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