“Una mirada crítica a los Gurús del Turismo”.  Tomás Mazón (2013) Alicante: ECU. 149 páginas. ISBN: 9788415941033

Xerardo Pereiro-Pérez

doi:10.25145/j.pasos.2025.23.018

“Una mirada crítica a los Gurús del Turismo”. Tomás Mazón (2013) Alicante: ECU. 149 páginas. ISBN: 9788415941033

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Xerardo Pereiro-Pérez Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-5701

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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2025.23.018

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criticism of tourism, Anglo-Saxon tourism theories, epistemology of tourism

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In this work we review a text that went somewhat unnoticed at the time of publication, but which we believe is very fruitful for the debate on tourism research. The author of the book is the sociologist Tomás Mazón, from the University of Alicante. And the object of his writing is the criticism, sometimes scathing, of some of the great Anglo-Saxon theorists of tourism, whom he accuses of being unrealistic, baroque and convoluted, in addition to not having done empirical field work to support their statements. These statements are seen by Mazón as opinions and not as well-founded scientific arguments. Tomás Mazón accuses these gurus of being elitists who only value elite tourism and despise the tourism of the middle and lower classes. In our review, in addition to exposing the arguments of this Spanish sociologist, we will also criticise his view, from Southern Europe, and its underlying bases.

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Xerardo Pereiro-Pérez, Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro

Xerardo Pereiro (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro –UTAD, CETRAD – Vila Real – Portugal. Email <xperez@utad.pt> ) holds a European PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia – Spain) and another International PhD in Tourism from the University of La Laguna (Canarias - Spain). He is associated professor with habilitation (tenure) of anthropology (by ISCTE- Lisbon) and cultural tourism in UTAD (Portugal). He conducts research about anthropology of tourism and cultural heritage in CETRAD (Centre for Transdiciplinary Development Studies, https://www.cetrad.utad.pt/) of UTAD. He has done fieldwork research in Asturias and Galicia (Spain), Portugal and Panama –about indigenous guna tourism-. He is the Head of Tourism First Degree Course of UTAD, and was visitor teacher in the universities of Vigo, Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pablo Olavide (Seville), Salamanca, Panamá, “Universidade Nova de Lisboa”, Costa Rica, UNICAMP (Brazil) and others. He was awarded with 1994 Vicente Risco Award of Social Anthropology and Social Sciences, 2007 FITUR in research tourism and 2011 Sol-Meliá - University of Balears Islands Awards for Tourism Research. Nowadays is doing research on Portuguese Inside Way of Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and about Tourism in the Douro Region. He is member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Tourism and Cultural Heritage – Pasos (http://www.pasosonline.org/en/). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-5701

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2025-02-06

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Pereiro-Pérez, X. (2025). “Una mirada crítica a los Gurús del Turismo”. Tomás Mazón (2013) Alicante: ECU. 149 páginas. ISBN: 9788415941033. PASOS Revista De Turismo Y Patrimonio Cultural, 23(1), 271–274. https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2025.23.018

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