Tourism policy research: avenues for the future
by Linda Ambrosie
International Journal of Tourism Policy (IJTP), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010

Abstract: Combining an understanding of past achievements with a more critical review of the meta-theoretical assumptions on which each research endeavour is based, helps to highlight gaps and contradictions suggesting bridges to future research. Similar to other areas of business research, tourism research cohorts generally coalesce into one of three perspectives within funtionalism: economics, systems or political economy. Each perspective arrives at correlative conclusions. Few tourism policy researchers have employed phenomenology and such research has been conceptual. Future research would benefit from a triangulation of perspectives combining qualitative with quantitative methods to explicate and generalise the values and processes driving policy outcomes.

Online publication date: Mon, 15-Feb-2010

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