Public governance and control of corruption: what empirical research depicts about governance in the tourism sector

Abstract

The present article aims to survey practices and mechanisms of public governance that can be directed toward preventing and monitoring corruption cases. However, the research is based on the tourism sector, which has been receiving increasing attention from policymakers. In particular, the study focuses on the results of empirical research conducted in the Brazilian context. To this end, a literature review was conducted in Brazilian scientific productions in the field of tourism, and it was carried out a descriptive and content analysis of the closed grid categorical type, whose categories were delimited considering the literature on public governance and control of corruption. In terms of literature, it was evidenced the recent nature of governance mechanisms in the tourism domain; the existence of few studies analyzing these mechanisms as ways to mitigate corruption in tourism; and the incipiency of empirical evidence on corruption in the public context of the tourism sector.