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!
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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Association
for Tourism and Leisure Education
Excellence
in Processing Open Cultural Heritage
