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An abstract model is commonly defined as a simplified representation of a system which would be otherwise hard to visualize and directly observe, mainly due to its complexity and/or large scale. Such a model depicts the form and the flow of relationships between and among concepts, elements, or even other systems. Synonyms include framework, construct, simulation, paradigm, theory, archetype, prototype, and blueprint.

The construction of abstract models has historical antecedents, most notably in mathematics, information systems, operations management research, and decision sciences. The increase of interdisciplinarity in the 1960s, pioneered by the father of cybernetics Gregory Bateson, opened the way for a revolution in soft system modeling within social sciences through the departure from the linear track of reasoning (Ivanovas 2007 ). Model construction was introduced in tourism epistemology in the 1980s. Jafari’s seminal tourist model ( 1987 ) leads to the development of an expanded...

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Jafari and Transformation: 
A model to enhance short-term overseas study tours

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This paper promotes the Jafari tourism model as a framework to understand the various stages of the student and staff travel experience while participating in an outbound mobility experiences (OME). Working through each of the components of the Jafari model allows recognition of the changing needs and requirements of both students and staff throughout an OME and the tensions that accompany this relationship. Drawing on experiences gained from the development and implementation of a two-week OME to Vietnam offered annually between 2011 and 2015, this paper will demonstrate how the Jafari tourism model can be used in relation to OMEs.

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Leiper, Neil, “The Framework of Tourism: Towards a Definition of Tourism, Tourist, and the Tourist Industry,” Annals of Tourism Research, 1979, VI(4):390–407. A framework for the general study of tourism is discussed. Three approaches to the topic: economic, technical, and holistic are identified and analysed; it is argued that its multi facets require a holistic definition. A systems methodology is used to develop a new definition of tourism. Five elements are isolated: tourists, three geographical elements (generating region, transit route, and destination region), and a tourist industry. The process of tourism is dissected to show that it is inherently a partially-industrialized one, and the tourist industry is shown to contain several sectors with functional and spatial connections across the system. Suggested applications of the framework are proposed, in academic research, education, business and government arenas of tourism. The main theme is that tourism's many facets are connected and that it is both possible and desirable to include an explicit recognition of those connections in general studies of the subject.

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