An ethical-critical view of the tourism as intercultural subject/ phenomenon for study

Abstract

Cultural diversity is undoubtedly one of the features of today's world opportunities for new approaches in social research. Questions such as: Is Tourism an object of study? Is Tourism an intercultural subject for study? need to be analyzed and discussed from a different stand point. The aim of this paper is to consider tourism not only as a social manifestation impregnated of cultural diversity but also as an object of consumption. Tourism is primarily a social phenomenon whose possibility to be analyzed and interpreted depends on the meaning and transcendence of human beings’ understanding. The purpose of this research, through a reflexive analysis of the literature, is to establish a degree of interdisciplinarity between tourism studies and contemporary world rich in cultural diversity and complex social facts. The paper proposes three main axes. First, we will address multiculturalism as and epistemic framework of the phenomenon of tourism. Secondly, we will present a reflective approach to represent a critical-ethical structure between tourism and interculturalism. Thirdly, we propose tourism defines itself.