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 …

Tourism research: A 20: 20 vision Page 1 TOURISM RESEARCH A 20-20 VISION Edited by
Douglas G. Pearce and Richard. W. Butler G Page 2 Tourism Research: A 20-20 Vision Page …

The formal study of tourism as a distinct subject in the academy is about 40 years old, the
same age as Tourism Recreation Research. Over these 40 years, it has shown remarkable …

· The field of tourism research remains bedevilled by conceptual weakness and fuzziness
(Cooper, 1989; Cohen, 1974; Britton, 1979; Dann, Nash and Pearce, 1988). For example …

'With this book Hannam and Knox have gone a long way towards elevating the study of
tourism from the obscure margins of social science into a bona fide research area. They …

Tourism research has come a long way since the first developments in the identification and
delineation of a tourism subject area in the mid-1960s. It has moved in interesting new …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, tourism as an industry had probably achieved a
higher profile in the public consciousness of the developed world than ever before. There …

By reflecting on past events, we can gain a better understanding how we have become what
we are. Using the tourism terminology, we can say that it is the way for better understanding …

Though tourism is a complex phenomenon crossing many disciplines, researchers tend to
approach tourism studies from within the specific boundaries of the main discipline in which …

This book serves as a valuable contribution to the understanding of the meaning, practice
and history of tourism in Tanzania, Africa and the world at large. It attempts to critically …