This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

Instructions for Authors

Editorial correspondence, should be sent in the to Pete Burns (P.M.Burns@Bton.ac.uk) or Richard Sharpley (rajsharpley@uclan.ac.uk).

Books for review should be sent to Lyn Bibbings (ljbibbings@brookes.ac.uk), Oxford Brookes University, Business School, Wheatley Campus, Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK.

Manuscripts to be considered should be submitted online at the Tourism Planning & Development ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

Please upload both an anonymised main document and a title page that contains your identifying details. Separate files are required to protect your anonymity during the review process. Please prepare your main documents in Microsoft Word (and save in .doc format).

Contributions submitted as full refereed papers should normally be between 4,000 and 6,000. Contributions that are intended as Viewpoint Articles should be 1,000 designed to stimulate ideas, discussion and/or present work-in-progress that has not yet been developed publication as a fully refereed paper. Viewpoint contributions will be reviewed by the Editors.

Tables and captions to illustrations. Tables must be typed on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and also typed out on a separate sheet. Tables and figures should be numbered by Arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to symbols.

Figures. Artwork must be submitted in suitable condition for publication. Please do not embed figures in the text. It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible.

References. These should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name and the year of publication, as follows: Smith (1996) or (Smith, 1996). If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a,b,c, etc., should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

For Books: Mowforth, M. and Munt, I. (1998) Tourism and Sustainability: New Tourism in the Third World (London and New York: Routledge).

For Articles: Telfer, D. J. and Wall, G. (2000) Strengthening Backward Economic Linkages: Local Food Purchasing by Three Indonesian Hotels, Tourism Geographies 2(4), pp. 421-47.

For chapters within books: Sch lter, R. G. (1994) Tourism Development: a Latin American perspective. In W. F. Theobald (Ed.) Global Tourism: The Next Decade, pp. 246-66 ( Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann).

For Internet Citations: Use the same style as for above sources but include the date downloaded and the full URL.

Titles of journals should not be abbreviated.

Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as the original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf for full details.

Permissions. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).

Further advice and information is available on our Author Services site at: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/permission.asp

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