Tourism special edition

The Internationalization of Tourism Research

“…The tourism special edition of the Brazilian journal Revista de Administração Pública contains papers presented at the Tourism in Rio de Janerio International Seminar held in January 2010. The emphasis here was on drawing Brazilians’ attention to international experiences at a time when the city was preparing to host the 2014 football World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games (Macedo-Soares and de Queiroz Brunelli 2010). As well as articles on or from Brazil, the issue includes a paper by Ritchie and Crouch (2010) offering Brazilian perspectives on their earlier study of destination competitiveness; another (Delener 2010) on global tourism trends as seen from an American standpoint (“the United States constitutes an important benchmark for Brazil”); and a third on best practice for sustainable urban tourism drawing on examples from Australia (Scott and Cooper 2010).…”

“…Similar considerations apply in terms of the transfer of experience, whether for policy-making or industry applications. Learning from the experience of others, as in the OECD (1981a, 1981b) environment project or the Rio de Janeiro conference (Macedo-Soares and Brunelli 2010), may be efficient and effective. Looking to the experience of others elsewhere may be particularly attractive before embarking on new directions or undertakings of our own.…”