Frameworks for tourism

Background and Rationale
Almost 40 years ago I started out on my first piece of tourism research. My master's thesis examined the development of tourism at Mount Cook, a resort located in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. At that time - in 1972 - the history of tourist development at Mount Cook spanned almost 100 years. One of the challenges of writing up a thesis covering such a long period was to find a structure that would enable me to analyse and present a substantial body of primarily archival material in a clear, coherent and, above all, manageable fashion. This was in a period when tourism research was yet to emerge as a distinctive field of interest and when there were few parallel studies or models from which to draw inspiration - Butler's (1980) tourist area life cycle model (TALC) was still a decade away.

Từ khóa: frameworks for tourism, Douglas G. Pearce, tourism management, tourism research, tourist organizations, logical structure