A GENERAL APPROACH TO THE TOURISM RESEARCH IN SINALOA

• Main Authors: Luis Miguel Flores-Campaña, Silvestre Flores-Gamboa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 2015-01-01
• Series: Ra Ximhai
• Subjects: tourism; scientific research; Mazatlán; Sinaloa
• Online Access: https://drive.google.com/a/uaim.edu.mx/file/d/0B_QQ0W8TI5acd0R5LVlnZGtNY2c/view

The historical development of tourism research is described, analyzing trends in the short term and the role they have played some government agencies to support tourism and training of human resources in Sinaloa. He was elected to Mazatlan, main tourist destination in the state, to establish the development of tourism research in Sinaloa, using cognitive arguments to analyze its scientific nature also epistemological and scientific level compared from the academic production two units of higher education in the centennial Autonomous University of Sinaloa. 40 educational training and human resource development for the tourism sector in seven municipalities of the state territory, both in public institutions (20) and private (20), four of them in training, a similar number in the high school level were identified , two higher technical college, 27 undergraduate and graduate in only three. This type of provision begins in the early 1970s and today, 12 schools have closed or changed programs, while 28 are active. Limited articulation between management and tourism policy, whose pillars are academic institutions aimed at tourism research in sight. The creation of a government agency dedicated to tourism research to determine, monitor and implement plans to adverse situations emerging in tourist destinations in Sinaloa, under consistent, rigorous and systematic processes, as required by all scientific research is recommended.