Bill Bramwel Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Tourism, Tourism Management, Public Policy Analysis, Governance, Public Policy
Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK
Bill Bramwell is Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Founding Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. He has research interests in tourism policy, planning, governance and development, and in cultural political economy.
Editorial Open Access
Author(s): Bill Bramwel
Based on the experience and views of the Editors of the journal dedicated to the subject. It argues that sustainable tourism is more than a niche area of study, and that researchers are now beginning to recognise and examine its full breadth and relevance. It reviews the roles of academic journals in the study of sustainable tourism. It notes the impact and implications for sustainable tourism research and publishing of the rapid growth in tourism journals and papers. It contends that sustainable tourism's relevance would be better recognised if more research adopted broader research perspectives, with subject matter set in its socio-economic and ecological contexts, and approaches embedded in the social and natural sciences. The field would gain from more use of flexible perspectiv... view moreĀ»