There are no benchmarks on which scholars, researchers, and public sector agencies can gauge where the subject came from, what it has achieved, where it is going, and what it means for the public sector in establishing adequate planning and control measures. This major reference collection, Tourism, brings together not only the seminal studies and articles that have shaped thinking in the tourism area, but also the structure of the collection synthesizes, organizes, and logically analyses a large number of issues to guide users through the manifold branches of this field.