This significant book sheds light on the possibilities and importance of undertaking interdisciplinary research between tourism and adjacent disciplines in order to further promote the values and contributions of tourism research in both academia and society.
The book critically explores the nexus between interdisciplinary research and tourism while also unpacking methods of tourism education through the lens of interdisciplinary research. Drawing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary tourism research, this volume ranges across various geographical regions and covers important contemporary themes such as gender tourism, senior leisure tourism, and the impacts of health and wellbeing on tourism experience.
Written by leading academics, this insightful volume will be of interest to students and researchers working in tourism, sociology, anthropology, geography, and related disciplines.
This significant book sheds light on the possibilities and importance of undertaking interdisciplinary research between tourism and adjacent disciplines, in order to further promote the values and contributions of tourism research in both academia and society.
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"As scholars continue to wrangle with epistemological aspects of the study of tourism, the authors of this book offer an eclectic, novel, and insightful set of contributions to this debate. In doing so they illustrate the challenges and possibilities of interdisciplinary research in an engaging and persuasive way which will surely influence the development of the field."
John Tribe, York St John University, UK
"When multidisciplinarity appears to act as a bottleneck for the integration and enhancement of tourism research and scholarship, interdisciplinarity has come to the call. This book puts together a collection of fresh perspectives on, and innovative approaches to, understanding the complexities and challenges associated with tourism. It is a must-read for academics and research students working in this evolving and expanding field."
Honggen Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, CN
"At a time when so many tourism scholars continue within their disciplinary silos, this book is a welcome addition to any collection of works on tourism research, because it illustrates precisely why tourism must be treated as an interdisciplinary subject. This tome is chock full of empirical illustrations of interdisciplinarity and brings to light new ways of thinking about tourism research from a multitude of diverse perspectives."
Dallen J. Timothy, Arizona State University, US
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
About the editors
List of contributors
Introduction
Interdisciplinary Research in Tourism: An overview
Jun Wen, Metin Kozak, Joshua Aston, and Wei Wang
1 Tourism and other disciplines: Shall we dance?
Elisa Zentveld
2 Disciplinarity and the solo researcher: Making strategic choices
Michael Fagence
3 Interdisciplinarity of tourism studies: Methodological profiles of doctoral
dissertations
Wiesaw Alejziak and Bartosz Szczechowicz
4 The Silk Road initiative: An interdisciplinary approach from tourism
politics to stakeholder management
Saeid Nosrati and Levent Altinay
5 Academic freedom: You can discuss any flavor you like, as long as it is
vanilla
Elisa Zentveld and Mark Myers
6 Academic freedom in the tourism and hospitality literature: A review and
call for action
Jun Wen, Metin Kozak, and Fangli Hu
7 Senior leisure tourists learning path: The perspective of transformative
learning theory
Fangzhou Wan, Zhuo Li, and Yubin Xi
8 Formation and reconstruction of professional identities: A lecturers
autoethnography
Qin Zhang
9 International students' decisions to study abroad: Empirical evidence from
South Korea
Amare Wondirad and Lisa Marie Assante
10 Gender tourism: An interdisciplinary perspective
Vorakarn Chalermchaikit and Metin Kozak
11 Interdisciplinarity benefits: The advantages of tourism considered as a
culture
Hugo Capellà-Miternique
12 To go or not to go: A comprehensive framework on suboptimal health status
and travel avoidance
Shaohua Yang
13 Positive psychology and tourist wellbeing: Reflections through a
developmental lens
Lu Chang, Sebastian Filep, Brent Moyle, Sera Vada, and Karine Dupre
14 Specify travel therapy for people with suboptimal health status: An
interdisciplinary perspective
Yedan Fan
15 The relationship between adolescent mental health and tourism experience
Jialu You
Index
Jun Wen is an associate professor of Tourism and Health Sciences at the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Macau SAR, China.
Metin Kozak is a professor of Marketing at the Department of Advertising, School of Communication, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Joshua Aston is a professor and associate dean (law) in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Australia.
Wei Wang is a professor in Public Health at the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University, Australia.
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