Tourism as the Subject of Research in Doctoral and Habilitation Proceedings in the Field of ‘Physical Culture Sciences’
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of the study was to identify doctoral and postdoctoral dissertations that were created between 2003-2023 and based on tourism research, and the promotion procedures were conducted within the discipline of ‘Physical culture sciences’ (PCS). An attempt was made to identify the connections between such theses and other fields/disciplines of science and the methodological approaches used in them. The conducted research was empirical in nature, and its result is the opinions of the authors of 119 doctoral theses and 42 postdoctoral dissertations addressing tourism issues on the scientific disciplines within which these works were located. The research results revealed strong connections between “tourism” Ph.D. and postdoctoral theses completed in the PCS discipline, especially with the fields of ‘Social Sciences’ and ‘Humanities’. In the research, it was shown that doctoral and postdoctoral dissertations devoted to tourism issues completed within the discipline of PCS are characterised by great diversity concerning the applied methodological approaches. They are largely multi-/inter-disciplinary in nature, and the doctoral theses are dominated by empirical methods focused on cultural research. At the same time, these profiles are strongly diversified depending on to which other field of science the works formally assigned to the PCS are related.
Source: Tourism and Hospitality
Authors: Wieslaw Alejziak, Bartosz Szczechowicz
Institution: University of Physical Culture in Kraków
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,448
OpenAlex ID: W4415968288