The authors look at tourism employment in both its workplace context and its wider economic and social environment and attempt to tell a coherent story. Both behavioural and economic perspectives are used to address questions that are salient to manpower planning, education planning and tourism management.

Michael Riley is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the School of Management Studies for the Service Sector University of Surrey, Guildford UK. His work over two decades centres upon the labour aspects of tourism and he has written extensively on human resource management and labour market issues.