Originality: The Holy Grail of Tourism Research
通过访谈20位高原创性旅游学者，发现他们共有的四个特质（不墨守成规、投入、自信、跨学科）以及情境因素的重要性，指出没有唯一的“成为原创”路径，管理者应更注重消除障碍而非积极促进。
Originality is an important goal of research. However, relatively little is known about the characteristics and motivations of individual researchers or about the facilitating or hindering factors that, in combination, can lead to original research outputs. This is a gap this study aims to fill. Interviews with 20 highly original academics (identified by their peers) active in the field of tourism identify four shared main traits among such researchers—nonconformism, commitment, self-confidence, and interdisciplinarity—and the importance of situational factors. The findings also show that there is no single optimum way of “becoming original” and, therefore, efforts to “replicate” originality may constrain rather than enable originality. From a managerial perspective, this suggests that it is easier to remove barriers than to positively facilitate original research.