Abstract
Global cities, such as London, are viewed as distinctive in terms of their role in the increasingly globalized economy. There has been considerable academic debate over the nature of global city labour markets and how these can be explained in relation to global city functions. New empirical evidence is presented for the tourism labour market in London and the UK. The pay, conditions and social characteristics of tourism workers in London are examined, and they appear distinctive in terms of their full-time, gender (male), student, ethnicity and migrant characteristics. An explanation is developed that explores the interactions between the global city role of London and other scaled geographical processes that originate, especially at the national level.Citation
Church A, Frost M (2004) 'Tourism, the global city and the labour market in London', Tourism Geographies, 6 (2), pp.208-228.Publisher
RoutledgeJournal
Tourism GeographiesAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461668042000208462Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
1461-6688EISSN
1470-1340ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/1461668042000208462