出版社：Visoka turistička škola strukovnih studija, Beograd
摘要：Tourism education,as we know it today,has a history going back about 50 years. There are examples of tourism being studied in higher education before this time,at the Universities of Rome in 1925,Vienna,1936 and St Gallen and Berne 1941 (Medlik,1965) but it was not until the middle of the 1960s that “tourism began to appear more generally in the academic repertoire of higher education” (Airey,Dredge,& Gross,2015,p. 6). Since then,from very small beginnings,tourism has become established as a subject of teaching and research in universities and colleges across the world,with its distinctive literature,academic community and areas of research. This paper sets out to examine the background and development of this new subject area and in doing so it explores three main themes. The first deals with the growth and maturing of tourism in higher education. This then leads to a consideration of the current tensions and pressures on the subject,which in many ways raise questions about its survival as a separate area of study. And from this the possible futures of tourism are examined with the suggestion that it is very well suited as a subject of study for a post-industrial world. The paper draws on a range of sources and in particular makes use of evidence provided by research carried out by the author and colleagues over the past decade (Airey,2008a,2008b,2015;Airey,Tribe,Benckendorff,& Xiao,2015; Dredge,Airey,& Gross,2015).
