Interaction in research and the importance of exercising hospitality within the academic environment

This article aims to discuss the relevance of the initiative of promoting the scientific event, the Academy of International Hospitality Research Conference 2014, held in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, in November 2014, and of its result – texts presented there were published as this joint edition of the scientific journals Hospitalidade (ISSN 1807-975X and e-ISSN 2179-9164) and Research in Hospitality Management (ISSN 2224-3534, printed version), in an unprecedented movement of union between Portuguese and English-speaking researchers dedicated to the study of hospitality.