著者

大橋 昭一

出版者

観光学術学会

雑誌

観光学評論 (ISSN:21876649)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, no.1, pp.5-17, 2013

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In recent years, a methodological problem in tourism studies is the lack of a shared paradigm, that is, a framework underlying most theories and a methodology accepted by the majority of researchers (Aramberri, 2010). This paper argues that tourism originates with human beings who traveled with basic necessities and subsequently brought about extensive development in tourism as a result of their mobility. It addresses afresh certain key issues in tourism studies from a theoretical and systematic viewpoint. While the new era in tourism studies began with "hopeful tourism" advocated by Pritchard et al., a new version of "alternative tourism" presented by Wearing et al. may provide a new category of tourism, enabling the transformation of tourism studies because it is rooted in human nature.In recent years, a methodological problem in tourism studies is the lack of a shared paradigm, that is, a framework underlying most theories and a methodology accepted by the majority of researchers (Aramberri, 2010). This paper argues that tourism originates with human beings who traveled with basic necessities and subsequently brought about extensive development in tourism as a result of their mobility. It addresses afresh certain key issues in tourism studies from a theoretical and systematic viewpoint. While the new era in tourism studies began with "hopeful tourism" advocated by Pritchard et al., a new version of "alternative tourism" presented by Wearing et al. may provide a new category of tourism, enabling the transformation of tourism studies because it is rooted in human nature.In recent years, a methodological problem in tourism studies is the lack of a shared paradigm, that is, a framework underlying most theories and a methodology accepted by the majority of researchers (Aramberri, 2010). This paper argues that tourism originates with human beings who traveled with basic necessities and subsequently brought about extensive development in tourism as a result of their mobility. It addresses afresh certain key issues in tourism studies from a theoretical and systematic viewpoint. While the new era in tourism studies began with "hopeful tourism" advocated by Pritchard et al., a new version of "alternative tourism" presented by Wearing et al. may provide a new category of tourism, enabling the transformation of tourism studies because it is rooted in human nature.