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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.
This is a list of tourism journals: peer-reviewed academic journals covering the study of all aspects of tourism. International Journal of Tourism Sciences; Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research; Journal of Interpretation Research; Journal of Sustainable Tourism; Journal of Travel Research; Journal of Vacation Marketing; Tourism and ...
The Journal of Travel Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering tourism. The editor-in-chief is Geoffrey I. Crouch (La Trobe University, Australia). It was established in 1968 and is published by SAGE Publications for the Travel and Tourism Research Association.
913 Geography of and travel in the ancient world; 914 Geography of and travel in Europe; 915 Geography of and travel in Asia; 916 Geography of and travel in Africa; 917 Geography of and travel in North America; 918 Geography of and travel in South America; 919 Geography of and travel in Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands ...
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [41] An early example is Thomas West's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [42] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778. In the ...
This is a bibliography of works related the subject of tourism.. Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".
Ajia kaido kiko: umi wa toshi de aru (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard, 2002) Lawrence Millman (born 1948) An Evening Among Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken (1999) Last Places: A Journey in the North (2000) Northern Latitudes (2000) Lost in the Arctic: Explorations on the Edge (2002) Marius Kociejowski (1949)
Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and supported and hosted by the same non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Wikivoyage has been called the "Wikipedia of travel guides". [2]