Affiliation:
1. University of Palermo, Argentina
Abstract
Over the recent decades, some scholars have alerted to the methodological limitations of tourist-centricity, which means the obsession with surveying tourists as the only source of vital information for applied research. Under some conditions, interviewees are of paramount importance to unpack some issues but to some extent, the obtained outcomes are not contradictory has been placed as the first point of entry in a hot debate among academicians. Interviews as well as other techniques have been widely used in the tourism field to understand travelers' behavior and preferences. The recent Covid-19 outbreak not only interrogated the methodological discrepancies of tourism research but also posed the following dilemma: how to study tourism in a world without tourists?