Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge
Tourism as an academic field is at a generational crossroad. The founders are retiring and being succeeded by a new generation of scholars often with tourism focussed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. This new generation could be labelled Generation T and is characterised by a multidisciplina...
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2011
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| author | Filep, S. Hughes, Michael Wheeler, F. |
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| description | Tourism as an academic field is at a generational crossroad. The founders are retiring and being succeeded by a new generation of scholars often with tourism focussed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. This new generation could be labelled Generation T and is characterised by a multidisciplinary education associated with a broad field of study. This generation is commonly considered to lack the advantages of a specific discipline focussed education in terms of theoretical and methodological foundations. However, theoretical and methodological development in tourism will become a primary responsibility of this new generation and there is uncertainty about how Generation T could contribute constructively to this development. This paper outlines the potential of Generation T to contribute to the evolution of tourism studies through the development of tourism theory and adoption of mixed methodological perspectives. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-149762017-01-30T11:47:04Z Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge Filep, S. Hughes, Michael Wheeler, F. Jenny Davies tourism evolution methodological Generation T theoretical Tourism as an academic field is at a generational crossroad. The founders are retiring and being succeeded by a new generation of scholars often with tourism focussed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. This new generation could be labelled Generation T and is characterised by a multidisciplinary education associated with a broad field of study. This generation is commonly considered to lack the advantages of a specific discipline focussed education in terms of theoretical and methodological foundations. However, theoretical and methodological development in tourism will become a primary responsibility of this new generation and there is uncertainty about how Generation T could contribute constructively to this development. This paper outlines the potential of Generation T to contribute to the evolution of tourism studies through the development of tourism theory and adoption of mixed methodological perspectives. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14976 University of South Australia restricted |
| spellingShingle | tourism evolution methodological Generation T theoretical Filep, S. Hughes, Michael Wheeler, F. Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge |
| title | Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge |
| title_full | Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge |
| title_fullStr | Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge |
| title_short | Evolution of Tourism Studies: Developing Generation T Knowledge |
| title_sort | evolution of tourism studies: developing generation t knowledge |
| topic | tourism evolution methodological Generation T theoretical |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14976 |