Allan M. Williams is Professor of Human Geography and European Studies Centre at Exeter University. His research interests include European Studies, Southern and Central European development and the economic evaluation of tourism. He is the author of The European Community: The Contradictors of Integration (1994), co-author of Critical Issues in Tourism (1994) and co-editor of European Tourism: Regions, Spaces and Restructuring (1995). Gareth Shaw is a Reader in Geography at the University of Exeter. His research includes work on marketing, urban and historical geography, and tourism. He is the co-author of Critical Issues in Tourism (1994), co-editor of The Rise and Fall of British Coastal Resorts (1997) and co-Director of the Tourism Research Group.