Developments in Tourism Research

Professor David Airey

University of Surrey

Developments in Tourism Research

i Industry stage

Functional/positivist/deductive

ii Fragmented stage

Multi disciplinary positivist/deductive/quantitative interpretive/inductive/qualitative

iii

Cultural turn

Multi/inter/disciplinarypositivist/interpretive/constructivist/critical theory

iv

Questioningstage

Questioning coherence -BalkanisationQuestioning the lens of observationQuestioning relevance

Developments in Tourism Research

i Industry stage

Basic statistics

ii Fragmented stage

Critiques of the curriculum 1

iii

Cultural turn

Critiques of the curriculum 2

iv

Questioningstage

Teaching under scrutiny