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To explore the future visions outlined in one of the first academic books on UK tourism to venture into tourism futures. Through today’s lens, their visions are explored through three topics: Future Markets and Destinations; Future Resources; and the Future Organization of Tourism.

Exploring the backstory, key drivers and tipping points of UK tourism development and tourism education during the 1960s and 1970s, they help to understand the rationale for the authors 1974 future visions of UK tourism. These visions are tested against reality, using a mixture of data, softer evidence and the authors’ judgements.

Acknowledging the authors showed courage in presenting their future visions, when so little was known about the development of tourism, let alone tourism futures. The article highlights the successes and failures of their future visions across 20 tourism sectors, through 55 tourism forecasts. The reasons for weaknesses in some of their forecasts, and their foresight in highlighting little known issues are explored, along with key learning points for tourism futurists.

The future visions of UK tourism were tested against data and other evidence, but this was not always possible. Therefore, the success or failures of some of the visions are based on the authors’ judgement.

Over the past 50 years, there has been a steady growth in tourism futures studies. Given the recent increase in awareness of history in driving futures thinking, perhaps now is the time to apply this viewpoint to previously published tourism futures studies because such reviews provide a timely reminder of the transient nature of tourism futures gazing.

Students of tourism have long recognized the Caribbean area as a popular tourist objective. The visitors have come primarily from North America; as Burkart and Medlik ob‐served, “…the principal tourist reception areas in the world lie up to about 1,000 miles or so from the generating source or, to put it another way, at about two hours flying time”. The Caribbean's large and expanding tourist trade may be attributed to, in addition to this obviously significant factor of proximity, the physical geographic factors of tropical climate, sandy beaches and varied topography. The Caribbean's cultural geographic assets include its diversity of colonial heritage and its variety of racial and ethnic populations. The unique economic and social situation of this region of the world, together with the continuing role of the U. S. as a prime generating source, will probably result in continued encouragement of and catering to this impressive tourist trade. Of particular note to students of tourism is the rising volume of cruiseship traffic within the Caribbean. This aspect of tourist trade illustrates some significant interrelationships of transport and tourism. This study's objectives are the analysis and interpretation of contemporary cruise‐ship traffic patterns, specifically in terms of studying the relationships which are apparent among various ports of origin and their related ports of call.

Pour tenter de faire une synthèse claire du travail intensif, ce rapport se divisera en trois parties:

An intending holidaymaker may arrange his holiday by booking his transport ticket with the airline of his choice, arrange his hotel room by direct contact with the hotel at his destination, and engage a taxi on arrival at the destination airport to take him to his hotel. He may also make these individual arrangements through a travel agent.

Until relatively recently the majority of studies of organisations from a variety of different academic disciplines viewed the organisation as an isolated individual unit and took little account of its interaction with the “rest of the world”. More recently, interest in understanding how organisations interact with their environment has increased and a realisation has grown that the boundary between an organisation and its environment is often very difficult to define, even to the extent that there is “a doubt concerning the relevance of the organisation as an analytical unit” [19, p. 11]. This paper describes one form of inter‐organisational relationship which appears to be growing in importance and which shows that legally defined organisational boundaries do not always bear much relation to the existing boundaries.

In Lewis Carroll's “Through the Looking Glass”, Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Doubtless few academics, practitioners, and administrators connected with tourism would support Humpty Dumpty's approach to the question of definition. In particular, the need for a precise and generally accepted definition of tourism is an axiom that few would dare to challenge. Accurate measurement, so the argument runs, is impossible without a clear idea of what it is that is being measured. If that idea is not a universally held one, then the summation or comparison of data collected from different sources is likely to be misleading. However, despite widespread agreement in principle on the desirability of clarity and universality, in practice a Humpty Dumpty approach to defining tourism exists. Aside from the very basic standpoint that tourism refers to transitory movements of people away from their homes, there is precious little agreement about the nature, scope, and salient characteristics of this movement. The aim of this paper is to clarify the main approaches to definition encountered in the literature on tourism in Great Britain, to set out the approach favoured by the author, and to stress the need for terminological exactitude.

The active role that the tourism sector assumes in increasing the Gross Domestic Product is by now recognized and this fact makes the operators in the sector considerably more responsible. So all the companies that operate in the sector need a continous managerial adaptation such that renders them able to answer, time after time, the demand necessities.

Higher education preparing for careers in the tourism sector has met with a lot of controversy over the years.

When the theme of the conference was first announced, the term ‘Thermalisme’ was used. We wondered, ‘What is Thermalisme?’ We looked in an English dictionary, but without success ‐ the term was not given. So we started looking further afield. We thought that thermalisme suggests thermal, which in turn lead us to think of thermal springs, which implies spas ‐ perhaps' Eventually we found an article by Cohen (1974) which asks the question ‘Who Is A Tourist?’ In this article, Cohen lists eight ‘partial tourist rôles’ (p. 541), one of which is:

Concerned with marketing of services but focuses on the service of incoming tourism as it is applied to the UK. States this study is in four sections. First, briefly examines the nature of services; second, examines the survey results; third, discusses the consequences of these results relative to the marketing problems; section four summarises the content herein. Sums up that the focus has been on problems involved in the marketing of services and on problems associated with the marketing of incoming tourism. States survey results were reported also the relationship of these results with the problem of marketing incoming tourism.