An overview of the literature on Tourism

Tourism is a broad subject and has been studied by quite a number  of Business Management students in their final year dissertation works. I note the following references:

On books

1. Cooper, C., Fletcher, J., Fyall, A., Gilbert, D. andWanhill, S. (2005) Tourism principles and practice, Pearson Education.
2. Matias, A., Nijkamp, P. and Neto, P. (editors) (2007) Advances in Modern Tourism Research, Physica- Verlag.
3. Moscardo, G. (editor) (2008) Building Community Capacity for Tourism Development, CAB International.
4. Swarbrooke, J. and Horner, S. (2001) Business Travel and Tourism, Butterworth Heinemann.

On journals

1. Annals of Tourism Research, published by Pergamon.
2. Current Issues in Tourism, published by Routledge
3. International Journal of Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research, published by Emerald.
4. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, published  by Sage publications
5. Tourism Geographies, published by Routledge
6. Tourism Management, published by Elsevier.
7. Tourism Review, published by Emerald.

Tourism is also covered in the subject of Hospitality Management.

Reference
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