ATLAS are a tourism-focussed organisation which promotes tourism teaching and leisure-related subjects; they aim to promote links between professional bodies in tourism, leisure and associated subjects and to liaise on educational issues, curriculum development and professional recognition of courses.They have a number of special interest groups set up:
- Business Tourism Group
- City and National Capital Tourism Research Group
- Cultural Tourism Research Group
- Events research Group
- Gastronomy and Tourism Research Group
- Volunteer Tourism Research Group
- Dark Tourism Research Group
- Space, Place, Mobilities in Tourism Research Group
- Heritage Tourism and Education Research Group
There is also a site dedicated to cultural tourism. Over the past 20 years, the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Programme has been monitoring the cultural tourism market for more information on the characteristics, behaviour and motivations of cultural tourists, through visitor surveys and studies of cultural tourism policies and suppliers. There are also related publications and reports on this page by Greg Richards.
