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INTRODUCTION: TOURISM STUDIES AND TOURISM
Definitions - some examples Etymological: tour - tornare (Latin) tornos (Greek) - Lathe, Circle, movement around an axis
Lathe
Circle
UNWTO:
Pearce/Morrison/Rutledge:
Jafari:
Mathieson/Wall:
Judd/Fainstein:
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Definitions include
or exclude parts of the tourism system.
Four core elements: - movement of people - a sector of the economy - system of interaction between people and - system of interaction between people and the surrounding world.
Dimensions of travel
- Purpose of trip - Distance travelled - Duration of trip - Residence of traveller - Mode of transportation
Who is travelling, who is to be included in the definition
Source: UNWTO
Rojek/Urry 1997: "Tourism embraces so many different notions that it is hardly useful as a term of social science."
Hall 2006: MOBILITY should be used instead of tourism.
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INTRODUCTION: TOURISM STUDIES AND TOURISM
Tourism studies Compared to other scientific disciplines, tourism studies are a relatively new field. The beginnings of a scientific treatment of tourism are connected to monetary and statistical approaches and a Central European view. The oldest major texts from Germany: At the end of the 1920s the economist
Robert Glücksmann started in Berlin his Archiv
für Fremdenverkehr as
a periodical publication of his private tourism research institute. While the war stopped tourism and the development of tourism science in many countries and Glücksmann’s ‘Jewish’ institute had to close in Nazi Germany, in Switzerland the development continued. In 1941 in Professor Krapf in Berne started the Forschungsinstitut für Fremdenverkehr, while in St Gallen Professor Hunziker became the first director of the newly-founded Seminar für Fremdenverkehr. After the Second World War tourism research was – and still is today – dominated by an Anglo-Saxon point of view from researchers working out of North America, Great Britain or Australia and New Zealand. The impact from other areas is minimal, especially if the publications are not in English. For the 21st century, many Asian scholars claim that the "third wave" of tourism science has now, after Europe and North America, moved to Asia.
Disciplines engaged in tourism sciences are no longer restricted to economics and geography but have in step with the growth of tourism multiplied, even though the quality and depth of tourism research is sharply criticized within the field. Cooper (2003) finds four problems
of tourism sciences still existing today: - a spread of topics and a lack of focus, - a predominance of one-off atheoretical case studies, and - difficulties with access to quality large-scale data sources.
- Which scientific disciplines are nowadays connected to tourism? Economics (Example: Economic contribution,
costs and benefits)
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Tourism studies started in
a big way only in the 1980s.
Most of the about 20 study programs for tourism in Germany are less than 20 years old. So in tourism science there are a lot of new fields to work on.
Example: The global economic crisis of 2008/2009 was the first such situation under the conditions of global tourism as a major part of the world economy. How would tourism demand react to the crisis, which parts of the problems would create which consequences in the tourism industry nobody could foresee - it never happened before.
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Contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt, arlt@fh-westkueste.de, Tel. 0481 8555-513 |