Do Tourism and Project Management Need Each Other?

IF 2 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourism Pub Date : 2022-12-09 DOI:10.37741/t.70.4.1

Marko Perić

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Abstract

While the relationship between tourism and project management (PM) seems logical in business practice, it seems that academic literature does not follow this reasoning. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there is an interrelationship between tourism and PM in the academic literature, and if so, what is the nature of this connection. To reach this objective, the author examined ten top-ranked PM and tourism journals represented in Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). PM journals do not recognize tourism as an attractive field of research because only nine papers (out of 2,995 published) refer to tourism or tourists. Additionally, from 11,332 papers published in tourism journals, 269 papers allude to projects mostly focusing on three major themes: (1) tourism development projects, (2) local communities, and (3) tourist experiences. However, the term “project” refers mostly to studied cases, while Knowledge Areas (PMKAs), which are the core of PM, are mentioned only sporadically. The findings suggest that the connection between tourism and PM in academia is not as strong as the business practice would suggest. Academics should pay more attention to the fact that PM knowledge needs to be applied and integrated into the tourism industry and its projects.

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旅游和项目管理相互需要吗?

虽然旅游业和项目管理（PM）之间的关系在商业实践中似乎是合乎逻辑的，但学术文献似乎并不遵循这一推理。本文的目的是研究学术文献中旅游业和PM之间是否存在相互关系，如果存在，这种联系的性质是什么。为了实现这一目标，作者查阅了科学网络核心收藏（WoSCC）中排名前十的PM和旅游期刊。PM期刊并不认为旅游业是一个有吸引力的研究领域，因为在2995篇论文中，只有9篇提到了旅游业或游客。此外，在旅游期刊上发表的11332篇论文中，269篇论文提到了主要关注三大主题的项目：（1）旅游发展项目、（2）当地社区和（3）旅游体验。然而，“项目”一词主要指研究的案例，而作为PM核心的知识领域（PMKA）只是偶尔提及。研究结果表明，学术界旅游业与PM之间的联系并不像商业实践所表明的那样紧密。学术界应该更多地关注PM知识需要应用并整合到旅游业及其项目中。

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来源期刊

Tourism HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

CiteScore

3.10

自引率

17.60%

发文量

审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： Journal TOURISM is an international academic and professional quarterly which welcomes articles on various aspects of travel and tourism. Th e journal emphasises the broadness and interrelatedness of the tourism sector. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal can be processed quickly if they are prepared according to the following guidelines. Manuscripts will be returned to the author with a set of instructions if they are not submitted according to our style guide. No contribution will be accepted which has been published elsewhere, unless it is specifi cally invited or agreed by the Editor.