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This WUaS 'Tourism Studies' subject focuses more on explaining how and why Tourism is a mass phenomenon, social scientifically, than WUaS's 'Hospitality and Tourism Studies' subject which focuses on pragmatic and financial questions of the Tourism Industry ...

Select Books
Ateljevic, J. and Page, S.J. 2009. Tourism and Entrepreneurship. Butterworth Heinemann.

Coleman, Simon and Mike Crang. 2002. Tourism: between place and performance. Berghahn Books.

Cooper, C. and Hall, M. 2008. Contemporary Tourism. Butterworth Heinemann.

Daher, Rami (ed.). 2010. Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation. (Tourism and Cultural Change Series). Sheffield, England: Channel View Publications.

Dennison Nash (ed.). 2007. The Study of Tourism: Anthropological and Sociological Beginnings. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.

Erfurt-Cooper, P. and Cooper, M. 2009. Health and Wellness Tourism. Channel View.

George, E.W., Mair, H. and Reid, D.G. .2009. Rural Tourism Development. Channel View.

Gmelch, Sharan Bohn. 2010. Tourists and Tourism: A Reader. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Graburn, Nelson, H. H. (ed.). 1976. Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Jamal, Tazim and Mike Robinson (eds.). 2009. The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.

Knudsen, Britta Timm, and Anne Marit Waade (eds.). 2010. Re-Investing Authenticity: Tourism, Place and Emotions (Tourism and Cultural Change series). Sheffield, England: Channel View Publications.

Lew, A., Hall, C.M. and Timothy, D. 2008. World Geography of Travel and Tourism.

MacLeod, Donald, James G. Carrier (eds.). 2010. Tourism Power and Culture: Anthropological Insights. (Tourism and Cultural Change series). Sheffield, England: Channel View Publications.

McWatters, M.R. 2008. Residential Tourism. (Tourism and Cultural Change series). Sheffield, England: Channel View Publications.

Salazar, Noel B. 2010. Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond. (Vol. 31, New Directions in Anthropology). Berghahn Books.

Scott, Noel and Jafar Jafari (eds.). 2010. Tourism in the Muslim World (Volume 2 of /Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.

Smith, Valene L. 1989. Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Smith, Valene L. and Maryann Brent (eds.). 2001. Hosts and Guest Revisited: Tourism Issues in the 21st Century. Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communication Corporation.

Tribe, J. 2009. Philosophical Issues in Tourism. Channel View.

Urban, Greg. 2001. Metaculture: How Culture Moves through the World. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Winter, Tim, Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang (eds.). 2009. Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism. London, England: Routledge.

Yeoman, I. 2008. Tomorrow's Tourist. Butterworth Heinemann.

Select Databases
Centre International de Recherches et d’Etudes Touristiques (CIRET) Tourism Studies' Database. 2011. CIRET Tourism Studies' Database. (Invitation to directly contact CIRET by email at ciret@free.fr with questions. Currently our Documentation Centre contains 159,359 documents, including the refereed articles of 162 journals. These documents are classified by theme – see the thesaurus on CIRET’s website http://www.ciret-tourism.com - and by country – see the geographical index on CIRET’s website. Research and Documentation Centre in Aix-en-Provence collects, catalogues and distributes published tourism, leisure, outdoor recreation and hospitality literature from around the world). Aix-en-Provence, France: Centre International de Recherches et d’Etudes Touristiques.

Select Journals, Serials, etc.
Journal of Tourism History. 2010. Journal of Tourism History. Routledge.

Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Programs, Applications, Software
Kessler, Sarah. 2010. 7 Ways Mobile Apps are Enriching Historical Tourism. September 26. Mashable.com

Select Websites
Tourism Studies Working Group. 2010. http://www.tourismstudies.org. UC Berkeley.

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