Call for Papers

The Folia Turistica academic journal (ISSN 0867-3888, e-ISSN 2353-5962) has been published by the University of Physical Education in Krakow since 1990.

Thus, it is one of the best-established journals in Poland

that deal with research on tourism and its accompanying socioeconomic phenomena.

F o l i a T u r i s t i c a Volume 56 – 2021

Call for Papers

„Approaches and methods of tourism research”

Editor of the volume: Ph.D. Wiesław Alejziak, Assistant Professor

Tourism is one of those areas of social and economic life, which are of interest to the representatives of various fields of science, and research on this phenomenon is characterized by a great variety of the discussed issues, research approaches, applied methodology and so on.

The multidisciplinarity of tourism research has its advantages of course, but seen that it is also perceived as a certain drawback and a factor which not only inhibits further development, it also makes the autonomisation of "the study of tourism” difficult (impossible?). In the discussion on this subject, which has been present in the tourism research community for many years, on the one hand underlines the fact that in recent years there has been much research on tourism, but on the other indicates that it is primarily related to the quantitative dimension, and not the qualitative. In opinions on the low quality of tourism research, most attention is paid to methodological shortcomings, which is attributed to a large part of tourism research.

With this in mind, the editors of "Folia Turistica" journal have decided to devote a special issue of our quarterly only to the broadly defined methodology of tourism research. We hope that it will become an interesting and valuable forum for the exchange of ideas and views on this subject (hopefully, on our pages as well), and a source of inspiration for future methodological research. We look forward to a wide response from the tourism research community, not only because of the importance of this issue for further development of research in this field, but also due to the fact that the subject is rarely touched upon in our environment.

We therefore encourage you to submit articles regarding the various aspects of research methodology on tourism. The following are examples of issues they may relate to:

− the role and significance of paradigms in the study of tourism

− methods and techniques used in tourism research - we are counting on works presenting detailed research, employing interesting, innovative methods and techniques

− the usage of modern technology in the study of tourism

− the possibilities and problems of adaptation methods developed in basic science, as well as different scientific disciplines (geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, law, management, physical education, etc.) for the purpose of tourism research

− the development perspectives and new directions in tourism research

− the issue of research autonomy and the possible separation of "tourism science".

Please submit articles in English by 30 ^th Sept 2020

Guidelines for Authors are described on the Journal’s website: www.folia-turistica.pl.

Contact:

Redakcja czasopisma naukowego „Folia Turistica”

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Krakowie, Wydział Turystyki i Rekreacji

31-571 Kraków, Al. Jana Pawła II 78

www: http://www.folia-turistica.pl/,

e-mail: folia.turistica@awf.krakow.pl