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Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS)

Tourism with its multiple services, places and spaces creates a huge variety of business opportunities and experiences. The temporal and spatial elements invoked highlight the complexity of interactions between local, national and transnational cultures.

These shifting, granular patterns emphasise the need to see tourism not only as economic enterprise but also as part of a wider social phenomenon. We see our role as bringing new insights and understanding about the ways in which tourism is changing our lives.

Predicated on the growing acknowledgement that natural and cultural environments are finite resources, CENTOPS was founded in 2001 to undertake empirical, reflective and applied research into the links between Tourism, Society and Culture.

On behalf of the CENTOPS team, I welcome you to our webpages and invite you to contact me with any comments or enquiries.

Professor Peter M Burns
PhD, MA, MEd, FRGS, MTS
Director, Centre for Tourism Policy Studies

Peter Burns is listed in World Who's Who - Europa Biographical Reference


CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL - IT'S TIME TO BE ACTIVE!

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Congratulations to Christina Koutra, from the
Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (SSM), who has been awarded an
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

CENTOPS is an Affiliate Member of

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CENTOPS news

Doctoral research student organises summer school to Thailand and Laos

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A doctoral research student, Claudia Dolezal is involved in the organisation of a summer school trip to Thailand and Laos for "StudyExperience South-East Asia"...

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Brighton boosts tourism in the Gambia

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The Gambia is raising the quality of its tourism industry and University of Brighton experts have played a vital role in improving standards...

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New CENTOPS book: Controversies in Tourism

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Examining some well established controversies in tourism and some newly emerging controversial aspects associated with tourism as an activity and a business...