“旅游学纵横:学界五人对话录(续)”之引子篇:这五年
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摘要
2013年初,谢彦君、王宁、马波、肖洪根、保继刚五位教授在大连东北财经大学针对旅游学界、学科和学术进行了两天的对话,并出版了《旅游学纵横——学界五人对话录》,传为佳话。2018年底,他们五人再次相聚在广州中山大学,依然针对旅游学科的方方面面又进行了两天的对话。征得他们同意,将对话分为若干个专题先在本刊连载,以飨读者。
Community perceptions and receptions of the rather "spontaneous" dialogue on tourism studies in Dalian 2013 have ever since intrigued our long thoughts for a second dialogue, which eventually took place in Guangzhou on 22-23 December 2018 at Sun Yat-sen University's Center for Tourism Planning and Research. For the matter of continuity, and overarched by the broad theme of "internationalization and localization in tourism studies", this two-day dialogue began with reflections on changing/changed situations over the last five years. Quintessentially, this opening session took a comparative lens to reflect upon the changing/changed landscapes of tourism education, research and scholarship vis-a-vis the felt changes, either implicitly or explicitly, in the state-of-mind of the five dialogue participants over the same lustrum.Issues brought up or discussed in the opening session include, amongst other things, 1) the integration of culture and tourism at the ministerial level, the corresponding changes in the industries and technology, the shift of focus on leisure consumption in contemporary Chinese society, as well as the implications of these new states or stages for China tourism education and research in the new era; 2) current practices in the research assessment exercise and the consequences, either positively(e.g., university ranking by subjects) or negatively(e.g., over-emphasis on top-tier journal articles against other publications such as textbooks and encyclopedia), in influencing the career path of individual academics and the growth of a field or discipline in general; 3) a heightened perspective on internationalization and localization in China tourism education and research, which is now built on a growing body of knowledge in milieu of an ever-maturing context against the more established disciplines such as economics and sociology, as well as in interaction with the English research community; 4) the transition of tourism educators and researchers from the pioneer to the pillar generation and further onto the younger hands; and perhaps existentially or individualistically, 5) the positioning and positionality of tourism researchers in the changing academic community. Overall, it is felt that the opening of the second dialogue has opened up the minds of the five discussants in their forthcoming exchange of ideas on "internationalization and localization in tourism studies".
Community perceptions and receptions of the rather "spontaneous" dialogue on tourism studies in Dalian 2013 have ever since intrigued our long thoughts for a second dialogue, which eventually took place in Guangzhou on 22-23 December 2018 at Sun Yat-sen University's Center for Tourism Planning and Research. For the matter of continuity, and overarched by the broad theme of "internationalization and localization in tourism studies", this two-day dialogue began with reflections on changing/changed situations over the last five years. Quintessentially, this opening session took a comparative lens to reflect upon the changing/changed landscapes of tourism education, research and scholarship vis-a-vis the felt changes, either implicitly or explicitly, in the state-of-mind of the five dialogue participants over the same lustrum.Issues brought up or discussed in the opening session include, amongst other things, 1) the integration of culture and tourism at the ministerial level, the corresponding changes in the industries and technology, the shift of focus on leisure consumption in contemporary Chinese society, as well as the implications of these new states or stages for China tourism education and research in the new era; 2) current practices in the research assessment exercise and the consequences, either positively(e.g., university ranking by subjects) or negatively(e.g., over-emphasis on top-tier journal articles against other publications such as textbooks and encyclopedia), in influencing the career path of individual academics and the growth of a field or discipline in general; 3) a heightened perspective on internationalization and localization in China tourism education and research, which is now built on a growing body of knowledge in milieu of an ever-maturing context against the more established disciplines such as economics and sociology, as well as in interaction with the English research community; 4) the transition of tourism educators and researchers from the pioneer to the pillar generation and further onto the younger hands; and perhaps existentially or individualistically, 5) the positioning and positionality of tourism researchers in the changing academic community. Overall, it is felt that the opening of the second dialogue has opened up the minds of the five discussants in their forthcoming exchange of ideas on "internationalization and localization in tourism studies".
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