Applying endosymbiosis theory: Tourism and its young workers

Richard N.S. Robinson, Tom Baum, Maria Golubovskaya, David J. Solnet and Victor Callan

Annals of Tourism Research, 2019, vol. 78, issue C, -

Abstract: Building on systems theory and its applications in tourism management, we introduce the natural science evolutionary ‘endosymbiosis theory’ to interpret the inter-dependencies of youth employment and tourism. Tourism organisations are located within a tourism industry or a sub-system, which in turn is bounded within a broader socio-economic ecosystem. We mobilise three classifications of symbiosis - mutualism, commensalism and parasitism to: a) test the analytic utility of this theoretical approach as a means to unpack the young worker and tourism employment relationships, and b) unify hitherto disparate literatures on the youth-tourism employment relationship. In particular, we model the explanatory value of endosymbiosis theory, navigating the ethicalities and moralities of the social sciences, in progressing our understanding of the tourism-young worker intersection.

Keywords: Systems theory; Endosymbiosis theory; Interdependency; Employment; Young workers; Tourism organisations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2019.102751

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