Abstract
Using London as an example this paper demonstrates that the idea of tourism as ‘pleasure and recreation’ is wholly inadequate for an understanding of the published evidence on tourism in major cities. In the UK this results directly from the definition adopted by the main statistical sources such that tourists become travellers, irrespective of purpose, who stay overnight at their destination. In so doing the paper highlights two areas for future research, the growing trend in short-distance tourism and the increasing importance of visiting friends and relatives.Citation
Bull P, Church A (2001) 'Understanding urban tourism: London in the early 1990s', International Journal of Tourism Research, 3 (2), pp.141-150.Publisher
John Wiley & LtdDOI
10.1002/jtr.296Additional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jtr.296Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
1099-2340EISSN
1522-1970ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/jtr.296