Tourism as an study object: a methodological proposal based on the researchers' gaze

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Celeste Nava Jiménez
Dominic Lapointe
Marcelino Castillo Nechar

Abstract

This research shows the result of a compilation of surveys in the field of tourism studies in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Canada. The main objective is the approximation of a methodology to build tourism as an object of study through the eyes of researchers in tourism, according to the process of building the objects of study in tourism and its methodological implications for the research on such phenomenon.

The result of this investigation is presented accordingly to the following sections:  a) Construction of the objects of study and methodology in tourism research; b) Disclosures about transdisciplinarity tourism as an object of study, c) Initial reflections to a coimplicated proposal in the constitution of tourism as an object of study.

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Nava Jiménez, C., Lapointe, D., & Castillo Nechar, M. (2017). Tourism as an study object: a methodological proposal based on the researchers’ gaze. Entreciencias: Diálogos En La Sociedad Del Conocimiento, 5(13). https://doi.org/10.21933/J.EDSC.2017.13.210
Author Biographies

Celeste Nava Jiménez, Universidad de La Salle Bajío

Doctora en Estudios Turísticos. Profesora Investigadora de Tiempo Completo de la Escuela de Turismo de la Universidad de La Salle Bajío.

Dominic Lapointe, Centro de Investigación de Turismo y Patrimonio (CITP) de la Universidad de Quebec, Montreal, Canadá

Profesor Investigador del Centro de Investigación de Turismo y Patrimonio (CRTP) de la Universidad de Quebec en Montreal Canadá.

Marcelino Castillo Nechar, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Turísticos de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM)

Profesor Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Turísticos de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM).