PAST REPRESENTATIONS

Response of ATHE to the Joint Academic Coding (JACS) review (2004)

ATHE welcomed the opportunity to respond to the recommendations for the review of JACS codes in June this year (see below).

HESA/UCAS Review of the Joint Academic Coding System

Many thanks for affording the opportunity for ATHE to respond to the recommendations for the review of JACS codes. The paper was discussed by the Executive. My apologies for the lateness of our response, which is as follows:

• There is agreement with proposal to bring together Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism subjects under the N800 code.
• From the tourism point of view the proposal to change the N800 level heading from Tourism, Transport and Travel to Leisure and Transport Studies represents a regressive move which we do not support.
• A new N800 heading of Tourism and Leisure Studies would be supported.
• In the N800 sub-heading delete ‘the’ and ‘industries’ to make it ‘The study of hospitality, leisure, sport, tourism, transport and travel’
• N830 and N840 should be merged, as the separation makes no sense. The title should be Tourism Studies. The short descriptor should not confine itself to the tourism industry. A better short descriptor would be: ‘ The study of tourism, destinations and the tourism industry, and their development and management in the UK and worldwide’.
• Alternatively N830 could be designated The Tourism Industry (The study of the world-wide tourism industry) and N840 could be designated Tourism Studies (The worldwide study of tourism and its development).

Professor John Tribe
Chair, ATHE