Interdisciplinary Research and Tourism

Jun Wen is Associate Professor of Tourism and Health Sciences at the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Macau SAR, China.Metin Kozak is a Professor of Marketing at the Department of Advertising, School of Communication, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Türkiye.Joshua Aston is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Law) in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Australia.Wei Wang is a Professor in Public Health at the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University, Australia.

• Introduction.1.Tourism and other disciplines: Shall we dance?.2.Disciplinarity and the solo researcher: Making strategic choices.3.Interdisciplinarity of tourism studies: Methodological profiles of doctoral dissertations.4.The Silk Road Initiative: An interdisciplinary approach from tourism politics to stakeholder management.5.Academic Freedom: You can discuss any flavour you like, as long as it is vanilla.6.Academic freedom in the tourism and hospitality literature: A review and call for action.7.Senior leisure tourists’ learning path: The perspective of Transformative Learning Theory.8.Formation and reconstruction of professional identities: A lecturer’s autoethnography.9.International students' decisions to study abroad: Empirical evidence from South Korea.10.Gender tourism: An interdisciplinary perspective.11.Interdisciplinarity benefits: The advantages of tourism considered as a culture.12.To go or not to go: A comprehensive framework on suboptimal health status and travel avoidance.13.Positive Psychology and Tourist Wellbeing: Reflections through a Developmental Lens.14.Specify travel therapy for people with suboptimal health status: An interdisciplinary perspective.15.The Relationship Between Adolescent Mental Health and Tourism Experience.

"As scholars continue to wrangle with epistemological aspects of the study of tourism, the authors of this book offer an eclectic, novel, and insightful set of contributions to this debate. In doing so they illustrate the challenges and possibilities of interdisciplinary research in an engaging and persuasive way which will surely influence the development of the field."John Tribe, York St John University, UK"When multidisciplinarity appears to act as a “bottleneck” for the integration and enhancement of tourism research and scholarship, interdisciplinarity has come to the call. This book puts together a collection of fresh perspectives on, and innovative approaches to, understanding the complexities and challenges associated with tourism. It is a must-read for academics and research students working in this evolving and expanding field."Honggen Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, CN"At a time when so many tourism scholars continue within their disciplinary silos, this book is a welcome addition to any collection of works on tourism research, because it illustrates precisely why tourism must be treated as an interdisciplinary subject. This tome is chock full of empirical illustrations of interdisciplinarity and brings to light new ways of thinking about tourism research from a multitude of diverse perspectives."Dallen J. Timothy, Arizona State University, US