Slides: Prof. David Airey

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Developments in Tourism Research Professor David Airey University of Surrey

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Professor David Airey's thought-provoking presentation on the evolution of thought in tourism education.

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Developments in Tourism Research

Professor David Airey

University of Surrey

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Developments in Tourism Research

i Industry stage

Functional/positivist/deductive

ii Fragmented stage

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

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Cultural turn

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

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Questioningstage

Questioning coherence -BalkanisationQuestioning the lens of observationQuestioning relevance

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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