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    Can tourism qualify for interdisciplinary research? A European view

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    Authors
    Pechlaner, Harald
    Volgger, Michael
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Pechlaner, H. and Volgger, M. 2015. Can tourism qualify for interdisciplinary research? A European view. In Tourism and leisure: Current issues and perspectives of development, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Peter Keller, 3-21. Wiesbaden.
    Source Title
    Tourism and leisure: Current issues and perspectives of development, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Peter Keller
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-658-06660-4_1
    ISBN
    9783658066598
    School
    School of Marketing
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51468
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper adopts a political perspective on the disciplinary status of research on tourism and postulates that in "declaring" itself to be on the way towards becoming "a discipline", tourism research could significantly gain and uphold the recognition by policy and industry. This will not call into question the fact that methodological and content criteria ought to be considered and respected, however. Declarations should endeavour to be accepted not only within by the members of the tourism community but also externally. It should clarify that "becoming an academic discipline" is a scenario that could provide a number of opportunities for tourism research. Academic disciplines as distinct segments of knowledge have always contained a political aspect with political implications and it is this dimension that we intend to emphasize.

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