Questioning the Maturity of Tourism Research A Mexican Perspective

of academic enquiry. The existing evidence from the English-speaking countries may suggest that indeed tourism has matured. However, this does not seem to apply to the academic communities. The limited conditions in terms of tourism scholars, publication spaces and postgraduate courses in countries such as Mexico may actually suggest that tourism is not experiencing a maturity phase. Thus this papers aims to question whether analysing relevant aspects in determining such a stage. It ends up suggesting that tourism research in Mexico is still in its embryonic stage and that the alleged maturity of tourism should not be generalised.