Research on tourism, hospitality and leisure submitted to the Brazilian human research ethics review system

Abstract

This paper has been the result of the interest in knowing if Brazilian graduated courses of tourism and of correlated areas have participated or at least have known the CEP/CONEP System (Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa/Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa – Committee of Ethics in Research/ National Commission of Ethics in Research). Here’s the result. This paper has aimed to analyze the researches whose themes were tourism, hospitality and leisure and that were submitted to ethics analysis in order to organize researches with human beings with previous analysis by CEP/CONEP System using Plataforma Brasil. From the data, we have observed that the submitted research proposals on themes as tourism, hospitality and leisure are few in number and there were many recurrent subthemes in each one of the three chosen areas of analysis. Furthermore, it was possible to conclude that master and doctorate programs overwhelmingly did not require ethical review for human research, and there was little concern from the professors and little knowledge from the students in clarifying and understanding the relevance of this procedure.