Books by Richard (University of Central Lancashire Sharpley

Aims to consider the future direction of the study of tourism. This book charts the development of tourism as an area of study, critiques contemporary epistemologies of tourism framed around the social science versus management dichotomy, and offers alternative approaches to the study of tourism.

Challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over past. Reviewing the evolution of the sustainable tourism development concept, this work compares its limitations to prevailing political-economic, socio-cultural and environmental contexts.