TEFI10 – Ajatuksia arvoista ja välittämisestä

Matkailututkimus 14:1/2018

Matkailun kokonaisjärjestelmä ja matkailututkimus Suomessa

The Whole Tourism System and tourism research in Finland Neil Leiper developed throughout the end of the last millennium an overarching theory – The Whole Tourism System (WTS) – to describe the complexity of tourism for decision makers to use, and for academics to contemplate and apply. Leiper’s intention was to show how tourism can be understood as an interconnected system, rather than non-related components that are managed separately. WTS is still today one of the best recognised systemic attempts to describe the components included in tourism, without being overly complex. The Finnish Journal of Tourism Research (FJTR) publishes academic articles in Finnish, Swedish, and English offering an opportunity to reach a Finnish tourism research audience in their mother tongue. This theoretical article aims at supporting future tourism research by presenting the WTS to a wider Finnish audience, and conducting a content analysis of the 13 FJTR editions published so far. The article organises the FJTR content according to the components of WTS to see how well the theory incorporates the ’whole’ of tourism and which components Finnish tourism research so far has emphasised. Furthermore, the article points out potential gaps in the research. Findings portray a major focus of research aimed at destinations and tourists, and to some extent on tourism industries, thus almost totally neglecting research about generating regions and transit routes.Neil Leiper developed throughout the end of the last millennium an overarching theory – The Whole Tourism System (WTS) – to describe the complexity of tourism for decision makers to use, and for academics to contemplate and apply. Leiper’s intention was to show how tourism can be understood as an interconnected system, rather than non-related components that are managed separately. WTS is still today one of the best recognised systemic attempts to describe the components included in tourism, without being overly complex. The Finnish Journal of Tourism Research (FJTR) publishes academic articles in Finnish, Swedish, and English offering an opportunity to reach a Finnish tourism research audience in their mother tongue. This theoretical article aims at supporting future tourism research by presenting the WTS to a wider Finnish audience, and conducting a content analysis of the 13 FJTR editions published so far. The article organises the FJTR content according to the components of WTS to see how well the theory incorporates the ’whole’ of tourism and which components Finnish tourism research so far has emphasised. Furthermore, the article points out potential gaps in the research. Findings portray a major focus of research aimed at destinations and tourists, and to some extent on tourism industries, thus almost totally neglecting research about generating regions and transit routes

Turvallisuus aiheena matkailualojen opetussuunnitelmissa Suomessa ja Australiassa – moniulotteinen näkökulma

Tourism industries are providing services in environments away from people’s homes; these are by definitions alien to the consumers and contain thus risk. Other risks are related to employees or to operators of the businesses. Risks can be quite concrete, but also more abstract such as loss of good-will and reputation. What focus is placed on safety, security and risks in tourism and hospitality educational programs in Finland and Australia? In other words, how are tourism and hospitality professionals taught to work safely in work environments of the industries? These questions are being answered based on findings stemming from an analysis of tourism and hospitality curricula. The key findings paint a worrying picture for the industries as safety, security and risks receive negligible attention in the overall tourism and hospitality education offer.Tourism industries are providing services in environments away from people’s homes; these are by definitions alien to the consumers and contain thus risk. Other risks are related to employees or to operators of the businesses. Risks can be quite concrete, but also more abstract such as loss of good-will and reputation. What focus is placed on safety, security and risks in tourism and hospitality educational programs in Finland and Australia? In other words, how are tourism and hospitality professionals taught to work safely in work environments of the industries? These questions are being answered based on findings stemming from an analysis of tourism and hospitality curricula. The key findings paint a worrying picture for the industries as safety, security and risks receive negligible attention in the overall tourism and hospitality education offer

What do conferences do? What is academics’ intangible return on investment (ROI) from attending an academic tourism conference?

This is a submitted of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN TRAVEL & TOURISM on December 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15313220.2017.1407517Conferences are funny events. They are self-evident elements of our lives as academics: meetings that occur, often annually; take place in various locations; and involve (hopefully) like-minded people, aiming to share their latest research findings. Conferences are actually so self-evident that very little research exists analysing what takes place at conferences, why people attend them in the first place, and essentially what the conference does to delegates as participants. This article is, on one hand, a reflective report from an academic conference: TEFI 9—Celebrating the Disruptive Power of Caring in Tourism Education. But it is also simultaneously an analysis of the implicit and explicit rationale and return on investment for attending academic conferences, in the words of three, at that time, PhD candidate rapporteurs and one professor rapporteur, who acts as this article’s narrator.submittedVersio