Marketing and strategic management in hotel industry: A bibliometrics study

Despite doubts and questions about its theoretical consistency, tourism studies tend to be consolidated as scientific field. The production of studies about hotel industry as essential activity of tourism is recent, but stands out important epistemological organizational spaces. This paper analyzes the production of knowledge and contributions to the scientific studies advancement in marketing and strategic hospitality management through articles published by the leading academic journals of tourism in Brazil. The method adopted was the bibliometrics research. Among the 552 articles published between April 2008 and August 2012, 64 were about hotel industry, sixteen of them grounded in marketing and nine in strategy. The studies show the complexity of the strategic management and marketing of hotel firms and provide to academic researchers, managers and professionals in hospitality reflections of the importance of the knowledge of this area