Resumen de Tourism studies and the changing research ecosystem
This conceptual paper scrutinises the‘research impact’of the impact agenda by Westerngovernments, in terms of what it is doing to the research process as a whole. Tourism studieswith its specific intricacies and disputed disciplinary status represents the focal point, but theargument extends to the entire research ecosystem as a whole. In specific, the paper addresseschanges to the training regime of early career researchers. The created survivor bias of impactclaims becomes the basis of scholarly career progression. How the accounting and narrating ofresearch impact claims represents a new workload requirement for scholars. The challenges inidentifying and articulating impact claims in thefirst place, and last but not least, the powerdimension and political conflicts that arise in who has the authority to label impact claims asbeneficial in thefirst place. The paper’s discussion focuses on the short, medium and long-termconsequences of these changes to the scholarly lives. With the conclusion, that whilst thecreated vulnerabilities to the authority of [tourism] research claims are real, such developmentsalso represents a viable opportunity to reassess, revalue and acknowledge parts of the researchprocess that were normalised and/or trivialised in the past.
