Journal article
Resource Management in Tourism Research: A New Direction?
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol.9(4), pp.265-280
2001
Abstract
This analysis of papers in tourism journals found that tourism research is expanding in volume but is static in content; non-responsive to contemporary issues; dominated by academics; disinterested in resource, host community and cultural issues; oriented towards supply and descriptive rather than directed towards methodology and theory development. Despite concern for sustainability, the absence of resource management in tourism discourse is highlighted. While others have attributed this situation to the evolutionary development of tourism inquiry, this paper suggests that this is symptomatic of a discipline that lacks direction, and which is not moving towards maturity. This situation contrasts with other disciplines where a clear evolutionary development is evident. Our diagnosis is that tourism research can and will develop and mature only when it explicitly considers the nature of the tourism resource, and the interaction of the industry with it, thereby finding a place in the spectrum of resource management sciences.
Details
- Title
- Resource Management in Tourism Research: A New Direction?
- Authors
- R W (Bill) Carter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and EducationG S Baxter (Author)M Hockings (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol.9(4), pp.265-280
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2001
- DOI
- 10.1080/09669580108667402
- ISSN
- 0966-9582
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449966402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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