Why ‘the tourism industry’ is misleading as a generic expression: The case for the plural variation, ‘tourism industries’

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Role of social media in online travel information search (2010, background): “…conceptualized the online tourism domain based upon an integration of a number of theoretical perspectives, including: (1) the industry perspective (Leiper, 1979, 2008; Smith, 1994), which focuses on what constitutes the supply of tourism and, thus, the organizational entities that comprise the…”
The political economy of tourism development: A critical review (2017, background): “…of theoretical development in the political of tourism lies can be attributed to the lack of analytical clarity and long-running disagreements regarding the precise parameters and industrial configurations of the ‘tourism industries’ themselves (see D’Hauteserre, 2006; Judd, 2006; Leiper, 2008).”