TY - GEN AU - Leszek Butowski TI - Tourism - From Empirical Research Towards Practical Application SN - 61385 PY - 2016/// PB - IntechOpen KW - Hospitality Management KW - Tourism Development KW - Social Sciences and Humanities KW - Management and Economics KW - Business N1 - Open Access N2 - Tourism is that area of activity of contemporary man that touches on various fields of human interest. Representatives of numerous academic disciplines find it intriguing for its exceptionally interdisciplinary character. Conditions for and consequences of the development of tourism are investigated, among others, by economists, geographers, sociologists, experts in culture, anthropologists, management and social policy specialists and even by representatives of some natural sciences. Researchers dealing with tourism need to meet strict methodological requirements, but they get access to a very interesting subject of scientific inquiry, which combines social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects to create an ontologically new quality offering epistemological challenges UR - https://www.intechopen.com/books/tourism-from-empirical-research-towards-practical-application UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/61029 ER -