Tourism Taxonomy: An Epistemological Analysis with Concept Elucidation Technique

Year 2022, Volume: 19 Issue: 2, 287 - 310, 25.08.2022

Akif Gökçe , Orhan Batman

https://doi.org/10.24010/soid.1101866

Abstract

The problem of term-meaning incompatibility and groundlessness in tourism theory has been the main starting point of this research. The main purpose thereby is to develop a scientific technique for the solution of the problem and thus a classification model. In this context, grounded theory, one of the qualitative research methods, has been used. The literature bases are compared with the opinion of the participant academicians obtained by the structured interview method and have been examined epistemologically with the concept explanation technique. According to the results obtained, (1) tourism concepts can be evaluated systematically, (2) tourism type designations sometimes do not reflect the reality of being a type. It is thought that the Concept Elucidation (CE) technique and the Hierarchical Tourism Taxonomy (HTT) model can be used as an evaluation tool for tourism type taxonomy, if they are used together.

Keywords

Theory, tourism theory, Hierarchical Tourism Taxonomy, Concept Elucidation

Turizm Taksonomisi: Kavram Açımlaması Tekniği ile Epistemolojik Bir Analiz

Abstract

Turizm teorisindeki terim-anlam uyumsuzluğu ve zeminsizlik sorunsalı, bu araştırmanın ana çıkış noktası olmuştur. Sorunun çözümüne yönelik bilimsel bir teknik ve bu sayede de bir sınıflandırma modeli geliştirmek ise araştırmanın ana amacını oluşturmaktadır. Bu kapsamda araştırma deseni olarak nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden gömülü teoriye başvurulmuştur. Literatür dayanakları, yapılandırılmış mülakat yöntemiyle elde edilen katılımcı akademisyen görüşüyle karşılaştırılmış ve kavram açımlaması tekniğiyle epistemolojik olarak incelenmiştir. Elde edilen sonuçlara göre (1) turizm kavramları, sistematik olarak değerlendirilebilmekte, (2) tür adlandırmaları bazen tür olma gerçekliğini yansıtmamaktadır. Kavram Açımlaması (KA) yöntemi ve Hiyerarşik Turizm Taksonomisi (HTT) modeli, birlikte kullanıldıkları takdirde, turizm tür sınıflandırması için bir değerlendirme aracı olarak kullanılabileceği düşünülmektedir.

Keywords

Teori, turizm teorisi, Hiyerarşik Turizm Taksonomisi, Kavram Açımlaması

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