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Understanding the Indiscipline of Tourism
Sylvia HerreraLourdes Cisneros MustelierMaximiliano Emanuel Korstanjesubject
State (polity)media_common.quotation_subjectSociologyCurrent (fluid)TourismEpistemologymedia_commondescription
Over last years, the current growth of tourism flourished in a wealth of courses, Ph.Ds., Masters and academic offerings that positioned tourism as a good perspective for students. Jafar Jafari signaled to the term “scientifization of tourism” to explain the ever-increasing attention given to this new field (Jafari & Aeser, 1988; Jafari, 1990, 2005). At a first stage, the great volume of bibliographic production offered an encouraging prospect in the pathways towards the maturation of this discipline. However, some epistemologists have recently alerted that not only tourism-research failed to develop a unified consensus of what tourism is, but also lack of a coherent epistemology that helps organizing the produced material. In this respect, tourism is subject now to an atmosphere of “indiscipline” where the produced knowledge leads to scattered (limited) conclusions.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 |