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  • The Role of Economics in Tourism Postgraduate Research: An Analysis of Doctoral Dissertations Completed between 2000–2010

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    J. McLennan, Char-lee
    D. Moyle, Brent
    Weiler, Betty
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    Moyle, Brent D.
    Year published
    2013
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    While economics was one of the first disciplines to inform tourism research its contribution to tourism postgraduate research remains relatively undiscovered; in addition there has been an apparent decline in the influence of economics on tourism research. This research examines the contribution of economics to a subset of tourism doctoral dissertations completed in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, providing insight into how economic theories and methods have helped shape the field. Based on a content analysis of 118 tourism doctoral dissertations produced between 2000 and 2010 the most common concepts ...
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    While economics was one of the first disciplines to inform tourism research its contribution to tourism postgraduate research remains relatively undiscovered; in addition there has been an apparent decline in the influence of economics on tourism research. This research examines the contribution of economics to a subset of tourism doctoral dissertations completed in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, providing insight into how economic theories and methods have helped shape the field. Based on a content analysis of 118 tourism doctoral dissertations produced between 2000 and 2010 the most common concepts or theories informing tourism economic theses were impact theories, tourism demand and political economics, with quantitative methods dominating. Further research is still needed to determine the consequences of the declining influence of economics on tourism research, scholarship and practice.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research
    Volume
    3
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://www.aebrjournal.org/volume-3-issue-4.html
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/64221
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