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4. The Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, first published by Cornell University in

1960

5. Journal of Leisure Research, first published by the National Recreation and Park Association in 1968

Since then, there has been a virtual explosion of tourism and tourism-related journals. In a paper
presented by Dr. James Petrick, Texas A&M University, at the 2005 Travel and Tourism Research
Association conference in New Orleans titled '' Examining Tourism Knowledge Development from

the authors identi ed over 150 tourism-related journals in the English language. 2
Journals have become more specialized over the years and now draw contributions from almost every
discipline. Academic journals are the research showcase of a field. Journals present new findings,
describe new discoveries, and track the development of the field. Continued growth in the number of
journals is predicted.

Journal Topics, ''

Electronic Communications

Electronic communications have facilitated tourism research, and this area will continue to expand in the
future. Currently, the most prominent tourism research bulletin board is TRINET. All tourism researchers
owe Professor Pauline Sheldon at the University of Hawaii a huge debt of gratitude for establishing this
electronic bulletin board, where hundreds of tourism researchers, both academic and practitioners, have
the opportunity to exchange views, explore issues, and request help in research. Because of electronic
communications, colleagues across the world are collaborating on research today.

CIRET

The International Center for Research and Study on Tourism (CIRET), in France, maintains the largest
database on tourism in the world. Its Research and Documentation Center collects, catalogs,
annotates, and distributes published tourism, leisure, outdoor recreation, and hospitality literature
from around the world. Currently, the Documentation Center contains 155,844 documents. These
documents are classi ed by theme and by country. Visit CIRET

' s Web site at www.ciret-tourism.com

to see its thesaurus and geographical index.
In addition, databases are maintained on research centers, researchers, publishers, and congress
calendars. The site lists over 773 research centers located in 106 countries and 4,594 researchers in 118
countries. More than 290 publishers are listed.
Dr. Rene Baretje-Keller, president of CIRET, makes its services available free to researchers and
students in order to encourage networking among the global research community.

TRAVEL AND TOURISM RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

The (TTRA) is an international organization of travel

research and marketing professionals devoted to improving the quality, value, scope, and acceptability
of travel research and marketing information. The association is the world

Travel and Tourism Research Association

is largest travel research
organization, and its members represent all aspects of the travel industry, including airlines, hotels,
attractions, transportation companies, media, advertising agencies, government, travel agencies,
consulting firms, universities, students, and so on.
TTRA

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is mission is to be the global leader in advocating standards and promoting the application of
high-quality travel and tourism research, planning, management, and marketing information, with the
following speci c objectives:

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Serve as an international forum for the exchange of ideas and information among travel and
tourism researchers, marketers, planners, and managers.

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