Turismo y Cambio Sociocultural: Una Perspectiva Conceptual

摘要

Turismo y Cambio Sociocultural (Tourism and Socio-Cultural Change) introduces readers to the nature of tourism studies through an examination of epistemology, mobility, and culture. Studies of tourism in Latin-American countries are admittedly in their infancy; however, social scientists in most nations of the world, regardless of their field, are reluctant to include tourism in the shrine of social sciences. Part of this reluctance may be due to the fact that the study of tourism draws from an unlikely pairing—the "trivial" experiences of leisure, vacations, and pleasure on one hand and the "serious" subjects of business and management. Further, the traditional social sciences of anthropology and sociology that dominate much of tourism studies examine tourism from their own narrow paradigms.