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Air, road, rail and sea travel). Yet tourism studies does not have a monopoly on the analysis of transport for tourists. Textbooks on transport studies indirectly discuss the movement of tourists. g. Stubbs et al. 1980; Glaister 1981; Bell et al. 1983; Banister and Button 1991; Findlay et al. g. QXD 25/6/09 7:54 am Page 16 16 Introduction Faulks 1990; Button and Gillingwater 1991). However, the ‘tourist’ is rarely mentioned in these books as the term ‘passenger’ is usually substituted. In fact, a text on transport geography (Tolley and Turton 1995) is a case in point.
Since the 1990s the situation has changed little, with transport usually relegated to a passive or descriptive chapter in most books even when more recent books are examined. g. Hanlon 1996, 2004; Doganis 2001, 2002; Graham 2001) have a wider use in tourism studies in setting the scene for air transport. However, they do not specifically meet the detailed needs of students of tourism given their subject material and focus on economic issues almost exclusively along with policy analysis. g. g. package holidays) have contributed to the development of tourism as a mass consumer product.
S. King: London. A review of the management challenge of integrating a growing variety of transport options. 1933 Ogilvie, I. The Tourist Movement. Staples Press: London. One of the first tourism texts to review the subject and its growth using statistics. Improvements in transportation are also noted. 1933 Burchall, H. ‘Air services in Africa’, Journal of the Royal African Society 32 (126): 55–73. Documents the emergence of commercial air services in Africa, their organisation, management and Imperial air routes.