Tourism and the environment: inventory of themes and Brazilian authors
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5380/tes.v8i1.37068Keywords:
Tourism, environment, Bank of theses – CAPESAbstract
This research aimed to inventory the themes and authors in environment and Ttourism area, the research gaps in this research field (from 1987 to 2006). The inventory consists in 63 theses and it is organized and analyzed from the following aspects: general characterization, subject analysis, theme, authors and methodological procedures. The inventory of topics and authors in Tourism and the environment was the beginning of the research that aimed to analyze the academic production in these areas. The data revealed that the interest in research has increased in Education Institutions (EI) in Brazil and that several areas of knowledge with their various methodological procedures have been researching the relationship between tourism and environment, thus turning it in a particular area of study.