Epistemology of Tourism

Abstract

The scientificization of tourism have concerned to many scholars in the last decades. The growing number of books, journals, doctoral thesis and papers in general make for some to coincide tourism has been reached as state of maturity in the process of knowledge production. However, in this short paper we place this belief under the lens of scrutiny simply because tourism lacks of a particular method up to date. From our end, we consider that tourism should focus on hospitality as its primary object of study and explain the reasons why it is trivialized by other existent social sciences.