Higher Education Tourism Courses in Brazil

Abstract

In Brazil, higher education Tourism courses emerged in the 1970s as a teaching and research field aiming to raise the students’ critical awareness toward a contextualized learning within the political, economic, and sociocultural scenario of the country. This chapter discusses the structure of higher education Tourism courses based on a new academic structure. The data are drawn from the monthly informative bulletins of the Center of Tourism Research (CEPETUR) of the Catholic University of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, wherein a group of teachers report their activities in both professional and academic sector of Tourism. The findings show that undergraduate students are encouraged to produce conceptual texts enabling their insertion in scientific research projects under a new conception of academic field.

Citation

Catramby, T. and Dutra, P. (2016), "Higher Education Tourism Courses in Brazil", Tourism and Hospitality Management (Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 265-273. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1871-317320160000012020