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Tazim Jamal

Researcher at Texas A&M University

Publications -  101
Citations -  7700

Tazim Jamal is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tourism & Sustainable tourism. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 95 publications receiving 6771 citations. Previous affiliations of Tazim Jamal include University of Wollongong & University of Calgary.

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Collaboration theory and community tourism planning

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the theoretical constructs of collaboration to tourism destinations and offer insight into interorganizational collaboration for one specific tourism domain, the planning and development of local, community-based tourism destinations.
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Touristic quest for existential authenticity.

TL;DR: This paper examined the experience of repeat tourists who participate actively in a Renaissance festival, from indepth interviews and participant observation over two consecutive years, and found that participants supported the existential notion in terms of intrapersonal and interpersonal authenticity.
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Collaboration theory and tourism practice in protected areas: stakeholders, structuring and sustainability

TL;DR: A growing body of research is emerging on tourism and partnerships in protected areas, but conceptual development remains fragmented as mentioned in this paper, focusing on three aspects important for sustainability: (1) complexity (nested systems of biophysical environments, tourism and park management structures, community-resident systems, local-global systems and use-conservation gap; (2) scale, structure and scope of collaborations (including community involvement and control) and (3) challenges of implementation and long-term structuring (for sustainability and success).
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Tourism and the forbidden zone: the underserved power of qualitative inquiry

TL;DR: This paper traced five important dynamisms in the phenomenology and constructive power of tourism and travel and highlighted the place and value of ''messy texts', ''engaged interestedness', ''locality/local knowledges'' and ''confirmability'' of qualitative inquiry.
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The disciplinary dilemma of tourism studies

TL;DR: The potential for developing more holistic and integrated theories than currently exist, and for tourism studies evolving into a distinct discipline, is discussed in this article, with insights drawn from two distinct philosophy of science perspectives, T.S. Kuhn and R.J. Bernstein.