Interdisciplinary Research and Tourism

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

About the editors

List of contributors

Introduction

Interdisciplinary Research in Tourism: An overview

Jun Wen, Metin Kozak, Joshua Aston, and Wei Wang

1 Tourism and other disciplines: Shall we dance?

Elisa Zentveld

2 Disciplinarity and the solo researcher: Making strategic choices

Michael Fagence

3 Interdisciplinarity of tourism studies: Methodological profiles of doctoral dissertations

WiesÅaw Alejziak and Bartosz Szczechowicz

4 The Silk Road initiative: An interdisciplinary approach from tourism politics to stakeholder management

Saeid Nosrati and Levent Altinay

5 Academic freedom: You can discuss any flavor you like, as long as it is vanilla

Elisa Zentveld and Mark Myers

6 Academic freedom in the tourism and hospitality literature: A review and call for action

Jun Wen, Metin Kozak, and Fangli Hu

7 Senior leisure touristsâ learning path: The perspective of transformative learning theory

Fangzhou Wan, Zhuo Li, and Yubin Xi

8 Formation and reconstruction of professional identities: A lecturerâs autoethnography

Qin Zhang

9 International students' decisions to study abroad: Empirical evidence from South Korea

Amare Wondirad and Lisa Marie Assante

10 Gender tourism: An interdisciplinary perspective

Vorakarn Chalermchaikit and Metin Kozak

11 Interdisciplinarity benefits: The advantages of tourism considered as a culture

Hugo Capell -Miternique

12 To go or not to go: A comprehensive framework on suboptimal health status and travel avoidance

Shaohua Yang

13 Positive psychology and tourist wellbeing: Reflections through a developmental lens

Lu Chang, Sebastian Filep, Brent Moyle, Sera Vada, and Karine Dupre

14 Specify travel therapy for people with suboptimal health status: An interdisciplinary perspective

Yedan Fan

15 The relationship between adolescent mental health and tourism experience

Jialu You

Index