What is it about?
The paper explores the part that Australia-based authors have played in tourism and hospitality scholarship over four decades. How have these authors formed networks and with whom? Are the collaborations within their own institutions, with scholars based in other Australian Universities or with overseas-based scholars?
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Why is it important?
The Australian Government invested substantially in tourism and hospitality education by establishing the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC). This major commitment to collaborative research across Universities, industry and governments helped the national research network to "punch above its weight" globally. The paper is important as a data-based and empirical investigation of Australian research outputs. Other world regions can benefit from a systematic analysis of how a sparsely populated and remote island continent has contributed to the rise of tourism scholarship.
Perspectives
I like this paper and enjoyed the collaborations. I spent 26 years as an Australia-based academic and wondered what was achieved over a longer time-span (40 years). For me writing this paper was a satisfying retrospective (I have been Hong Kong-based for almost seven years now).
Professor Brian Edward Melville King
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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This page is a summary of: The global dissemination of scholarly tourism outputs from 1976 to 2016: evidence from Australia, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2019.1567564.
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