Amazon.com description: Product Description: As research in tourism expands at such a rapid rate, the development of concepts and methodologies which underpin the research has often suffered. In order to address the current questions and work through the key debates that challenge tourism researchers, certain criteria need to be laid out and a conceptual framework established to help research progress in rigorous and useful way. This collection offers an up-to-date analysis of research issues in tourism, testing conceptual and methodological issues from a variety of perspectives including sociology, psychology, management and planning. It questions native stereotypes, tourist motivation and policy on both local and global levels, assessing how far tourism is interdisciplinary and identifying patterns for future research and development.