As tourism has developed to be quite an issue inside cultural anthropology I thought I'd provide a data-source for research in that field: "For the past 45 years, the Travel Industry World Yearbook -- The Big Picture has provided marketers in as diverse sectors as airlines, hotels, car rental companies, convention and visitor bureaus, destinations, cruise companies, travel agencies, advertising, accounting and law, investment banking, and economists and educators, with a better understanding of the events, issues and challenges that shape the travel and tourism industry. With its own, unique approach, the Yearbook highlights the main events and searches beyond the headlines to root out causes and effects and what they mean for the travel industry. Statistics are an important part of our presentation, but equally important is covering regions, countries, and industry sectors with in-depth analysis. This remains our operative method." [underline added] Read more or browse its contents and features. The volume is quite costly ($125,-), but having a look at it in the library may do as well ;-) And chances are good that your library holds the whole series which started in 1958.

TRAVEL INDUSTRY PUBLISHING COMPANY (Ed.). 2003. Travel Industry World Yearbook: The Big Picture 2002. New York: Travel Industry Publishing Company. [ISBN 0-9673634-2-X, ISSN 0738-9515]

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