Matkailun kokonaisjärjestelmä ja matkailututkimus Suomessa
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matkailuala, tutkimus, matkailijat, SuomiAbstrakti
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.
