Evaluation of public politics of tourism: a bibliometrical analysis of tourism periodic

Abstract

This work has the objective to gather de articles that talk about public politics evaluation in specific periods, evaluated and classified by Coordination of Improvement of Personal with CAPES Upper Level with the same concepts or higher to B4. As for the methodology, there have been selected articles of which the titles presented one or more key words concerning to the evaluation of public politics of tourism in the period of 2003-2010. They attempted to elucidate the frequency of academic production of evaluation, authors and institutions, the objects of studies, methodological procedures and quotes of specialized bibliography. For that, an analysis technique of contents was used. The results showed that time and space occupied for the evaluation of public politics of tourism is irrelevant in the main periods of tourism. Diversity was verified of authors and institutions and little use of the specialized bibliography, both for evaluation and tourism. Conclusion highlighted the lack of clarity as for the methodology utilized in the articles, especially regarding to analytical categories and indicators, which compromised part of the analysis and main conclusions.