New Trends in the Growth of Tourism Employment in the UK in the 1990s
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Barry Thomas [1] ; Alan Townsend [1]
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[1] Durham University
Durham University
Reino Unido
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- Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 7, Nº. 3, 2001, págs. 295-310
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
New evidence on tourism employment in the UK in the 1990s shows major departures from patterns of change of the 1980s and from other sectors in the 1990s. In the 1990s the tourism sector no longer seemed to exhibit the exceptionally rapid growth that had been almost an article of faith for those who build economic development strategies around tourism. The growth in the number of tourism-related employees became little different from the growth of employment in general, but there was significant redistribution across types of work and sub-regions. Tourism still has the highest proportion of part-time workers but, in marked contrast to many other sectors, it has now tended to move away from part-time employment. There is, however, heavy differentiation of experience across areas, and London, which dominates in absolute terms, departs radically from the general tourism pattern: it has high growth and a marked move towards part-timers. These surprising findings have implications for debates on the quality of jobs in tourism and on the role of tourism in economic development.
