What is it about?
A survey of professional academic societies around the world that study the history and culture of tourism and travel.
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Why is it important?
Readers can acquire a sense of the groups that study the culture of tourism. They may also locate one in theor geographic area with which they might like to be affiliated.
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The study of tourism and its culture has grown significantly around the world. This essay documents this growth, a testimonial to the importance of tourism, by some measures the largest single industry in the world. It also speaks to the heightened status of travel and tourism as subjects worthy of study by the academic community.
Prof Bertram M Gordon
Mills College
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This page is a summary of: Touring the field: the infrastructure of tourism history scholarship, Journal of Tourism History, May 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1755182x.2015.1059493.
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