Experiencia de la investigacion turistica en Venezuela

Abstract

This paper analysis the venezuelan research in Tourism carried out at the universities ministrating postgraduate courses in Tourism integral planning and tourism management. It presents the institutional basis of Tourism in Venezuela. and focuses on the issues of these courses stressing: subject and production departments, new frames of reference, strategies, approach tactics and nature. It refers, also, to the new urban model for tourism set up in recent Spanish plans, like the urbanistic plan of Costa de Calviá (Mallorca). It concludes that relationship between university, public sector and private sector is needed, to establish a coherent and priority-oriented research program to be developed.