Thirty Years Of Tourism Management

摘要

In 2009 Tourism Management moves into its 30th volume. Given this, it was suggested to the editor that some brief review of the journal's progress over three decades might be in order. In a sense, three decades represents a significant period in the history of tourism research. While recognising this to be the case, it is not the purpose of this editorial to chart the changes in tourism research per se, but to simply note changes in the journal alone. Yet the journal, its nature and readership is impacted by the research environment. Four factors are thought to have induced these changes, and they are (a) changes in our understanding of social science research, (b) changes in the industry and phenomena that form the subject of our research, (c) changes in the dissemination of our research findings and the role of publishers and (d) changes in the status of university academic staff and researchers.