Nowadays tourism studies have become extremely popular among the students. They are attracted by the huge opportunities tourism industry offers: broadening one’s scope of knowledge through imaginative and real travel at the same time raising money from it. Tourism dissertation is one of the forms that tourism study acquires.
 
The purposes of tourism dissertations are:

• To develop the student’s research and writing skills;
• To show the student’s knowledge of the dynamic nature of the tourism industry, its structure, organization and the main features;
• To implement the theoretical knowledge on practice with the purpose of finding solutions to some controversial problem.

The length of tourism dissertation is about 15,000 words.
 
The main features of a successful tourism dissertation are:

• Originality;
• Coherence and structure;
• Appropriate methodology;
• Practical findings based on theoretical knowledge.

We advise you to find such a topic for your tourism dissertation that will find its place in your future career. Consider what you should know to work in public, private and non-profit tourism sectors, what knowledge needs further enlarging.
 
Normally, tourism dissertations deal with one of the following spheres: pilgrimage, health tourism, leisure travel, winter tourism, mass tourism, niche tourism. Recent developments can also be studied in your tourism dissertation.
 
When the topic is chosen you start conducting the research. For your research to be as effective as possible we advise you to create a working plan where all the stages of your research will be outlined. Divide your research into separate sections; it will help you to see clearly the objectives of all of them and the whole research as a whole.
 
When the research is conducted, arrange the information according to the tourism dissertations structure:

• Abstract;
• Introduction;
• Literature review;
• Methodology;
• Findings;
• Discussion;
• Conclusions;
• Bibliography;
• Appendices.

Once more we stress on the fact that your tourism dissertation should be a well-organized paper where the author’s ideas are clearly stated and the reader easily understands the message.
 
Good luck with your tourism dissertation!