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Tourism
- Hall, Michael C.
- 2005
Tourism is now a major area of academic study and publishing. There has been a proliferation of tourism courses at tertiary institutions around the world since the late 1980s. Publishers have responded to the growth in student demand for relevant material with a corresponding increase in the publication of texts and reference material. Nevertheless, despite the growth in tourism texts, there are still relative few 'global' introductory texts for university students to the field of tourism studies from a social scientific perspective. This book is designed to fill some of that gap by providing a broad international introduction at a macro-level perspective to tourism development issues and the wider field of tourism studies. However, I would be the first to acknowledge that while global in scope, the international dimension is constrained by a dependence on academic literature in the English language. Where possible, however, reference is made to work in other languages. The text is designed to meet the demands of undergraduate tertiary tourism students as a core social science text in their degree, although it should also be of some utility for graduate students in tourism as well. Ideally, it will also be useful for students in cognate areas, such as geography, recreation and leisure. The use of key ideas of accessibility, mobility, globalisation and localisation are utilised in order to try to provide a coherent framework for understanding and discussing the development, …
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