Tourism environments and management

The Congress of the World Leisure and Recreation Association, held in Sydney, Australia 16–19 July 1991, had as its focus the theme of ‘Leisure and tourism: social and environmental change’. Among over 140 papers on varied management, research and education issues a number examined the frameworks used to understand tourism environments and their management. Bill Bramwell, of the Centre for Tourism at Sheffield City Polytechnic, assesses the new insights offered by these papers.