The importance of social sciences in the curricula of tourism students Maximiliano E. Korstanje University of Palermo, Argentina Abstract: As the one of largest industries of the world, Tourism not only has been developed in many countries as a mainstream activity but also has transformed in an academic discipline at universities. With the passing of years, more and more tertiary institutions and universities adopted tourism as a fertile alternative for training human resources and professionals for tourism work-force. Based on the assumption that managerial literature and business has historically exerted a considerable influence in the creation of programmes, the present paper explores to what an extent the Social Sciences has been excluded from the formation of syllabuses and programmes. For so doing, we present important evident that shows how in Argentina Social Sciences are trivialized to secondary position in educating the future human resources. Even though it is important next practitioners hold knowledge related to management and business for the advance of the industry, no less relevant seems to be the inclusion of scientific-research the student's curricula. Otherwise, like this was in the case of Argentina, the advance of this new discipline runs a serious risk to become stagnant. Keywords: Social Sciences, Management, Curricula, Education, Tourism and Hospitality Introduction S ince the crippling financial crisis of 2001 where Argentina has been rushed to abandon its convertibility system, tourism and other related industries have experienced an unfettered growth. The numbers of hotels ranged from 6.970 in 1999 to 9.229 in 2005 showing an accumulated rate of growing of 2.88% annually 1 . In 2004/2005 Buenos Aires city showed an occupation rate of 47.75% seconded by other traditional tourist destination as San Carlos de Bariloche (39.35%) and Iguazu (45.74%) 2 . In addition, Buenos Aires situated as the main tourist destination with more than 3.806 travel-agencies headquarters representing almost the 83% of the entire volume of tourism-related companies in Argentina. Under such a context, it is important to question how has been evolved the education and its potentialities that scientific-research can do in the advance of the discipline. This begs interesting questions that serve as points of entry in this intriguing debate, what do the tourism-related students learn?, what importance has Journal of Tourism, Volume XII, No. 1, 2011 © 2010 by CMTHS-HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), India. Research Note 1 Source. Market and Statistics Department. Secretary of Tourism. 2006. 2 Source: Anuario Turistico, Secretary of Tourism Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 2006.