Challenging 'Common Knowledge' in Tourism - A Partial Polemic
ISBN
978-3-658-06659-8
Type
book section
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Pechlaner, Harald
Smeral, Egon
Abstract
Tourism Research as well as practice is very heterogeneous, due to its different cultural roots and dominant business patterns. Despite this heterogeneity, dominant intellectual avenues in a number of domains have emerged. As a result, we today are essentially stuck in a sort of trenches. In our paper, we try to identify some of those intellectual trenches and call for/ propose ways to get out of them. They include, among others, topics related to consumer behaviour, destination management, and sustainable tourism. Although we try to provide evidence for our claims, we might appear polemic at times, as we intend to provide contentious arguments about sometimes very controversial topics.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to practical use / society
Refereed
No
Book title
Tourism and Leisure - Current Issues and Prespectives of Development
Publisher
Springer Gabler
Publisher place
Wiesbaden
Start page
23
End page
40
Pages
18
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
234563