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February 10, 2011Tourism Geographies

Tourism's Role in the Global Economy

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Few things drive me crazier when marking student papers than coming across quoted and cited claims that tourism is the world's largest industry. Tourism is certainly a huge and important economic a...

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Alan A. Lew (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a82dede061372775e6d1b5c https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2010.531046

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