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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to tourism: Tourism – travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. [1] Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country.
The Annals of Tourism Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the academic aspects of tourism. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 9.011.
Tourists at Niagara Falls.. Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity. Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism.
Research by the Overseas Development Institute suggests that neither is the best way to encourage tourists' money to reach the poorest as only 25% or less (far less in some cases) ever reaches the poor; successful examples of money reaching the poor include mountain-climbing in Tanzania and cultural tourism in Luang Prabang, Laos. [94]
Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru (UNC Press Books, 2018). Towner, John. "The grand tour: A key phase in the history of tourism." Annals of tourism research 12.3 (1985): 297–333. Vukonic, Boris. "An outline of the history of tourism theory." in The Routledge handbook of tourism research ed. Cathy Hsu (2012).
Tourism and Hospitality Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of hospitality management. The editor is Marina Novelli ( University of Brighton ). It was established in 2004 and is published by SAGE Publications .
The publication Promoting Tourism in Rural America [4] explains the need for planning and marketing rural communities, as well as weighing the pros and cons of the impacts of tourism. Local citizen participation is helpful and should be included in starting any kind of a tourism program.
The acceptable level of damage is a matter of human judgment. Understanding what is acceptable is the focus of the limits of acceptable change planning process referred to later in this article. There are numerous forms of carrying capacity relevant to tourism. This article will focus on the four most commonly used.