Tourism as an Object of Study

Abstract

Despite of the over production of the Tourism-related scholars over the recent decades, there is still a great fragmentation in the sense of tourism, as well as the interpretation of each discipline about Tourism. Though the paradigm of sustainability has ruled the discipline for years, no less true is that in the recent years the object of study of Tourism has waded into crisis. The present text attempts a shared definition of tourism through its object of study. Certainly, the progress of tourism investigation depends on the capacity of scholarship and policy makers to shape an exhaustive definition towards a more integrated form.