Consultants as Knowledge Brokers: Issues and Implications for China Tourism Research

摘要: ABSTRACTConsultants play a unique role as knowledge brokers in scientific community. In the accelerating demand for knowledge-based practices, consulting has not only turned into flourishing profession, it also served an effective strategy academics to demonstrate practical implications of their work through spreading innovative ideas and promoting use industry, policy development practices. As result, become area research its own right such fields business management, information technology, health studies or healthcare. tourism, nonetheless, on consultancy brokering been particularly limited. This article presents general review critique brokering, highlights issues, perspectives future this subject potentially largest origin destination world tourism.