Rodrigo de Azeredo Grünewald’s scientific contributions

... This turn in the discipline also influenced anthropological tourism studies, which blended with cultural studies and addressed topics such as the deconstruction of travel and "traveling cultures"; the application of concepts such as "borderlands" and "borderzones" to tourism (Bruner, 1996;Clifford, 1997;Rojek & Urry, 1997), and the semiotic analysis of promotional material in tourism (Dann, 1996). In Latin America, the anthropology of tourism followed a similar path with a different timeline (Barretto, 2011;Barretto, Grünewald, & Otamendi, 2010). The "critical turn" in tourism studies developed later, in the 21st century, with major proponents of this approach calling for interpretive, qualitative, and reflexive research, and the unification of philosophical and theoretical approaches (Ateljevic, Harris, Wilson, & Collins, 2005;Ateljevic et al., 2007;Hollinshead & Jamal, 2007;Lew, Hall, & Williams, 2004;Phillimore & Goodson, 2004;Tribe, 2006). ...

Reference:

A Critical Look at the State of Tourism Studies in Anthropology in Latin America and the Caribbean