Leisure-Tourism Interfaces: Knowledge Condition

The text is result of research about the leisure and tourism interface identified in theses and dissertations concluded between 2009 and 2015 in Brazil. Its goal is to present and discuss the position of the authors of selected works about the relationship between the two phenomena and answer the question about the leisure - tourism interfaces set out in them. The study is characterized as knowledge state, methodologically considering literature review and content analysis. Following the methodological criteria, fifteen theses and dissertations were selected in different postgraduate programs. The results show the permanence of a tourism overlap related to leisure and vice versa. It concludes the lack of significant progress on the knowledge about the interfaces between the two phenomena and reiterates the importance of developing interdisciplinary approaches in future studies on this topic.