Tourism scientific production: referential papers analysis in Brazil and abroad

Abstract

This is an exploratory documental research, it describes and analysis the approaches and results of a group of scientific papers about both foreign and Brazilian tourism , with fundamental principle in bibliographic survey and content analysis. The goal is to debate the relevance and the touristic knowing evolutive stage, with a sample of referential papers about the same issue abroad and it maps 24 papers produced about this issue in Brazil from 1993 to 2008, distinguishing different goals, studying subjects, methodologies and results. Most of the foreigner investigations features itself as measurement, focusing on scientific journals and salients the theoretical referential and adopted methodology. In Brazil, although most of investigations privileges essais and academical thesis as a research matter, we found more diversity of the last, it is possible to notice a place at a distance from the theoretical and methodological reference from abroad.