摘要:The tourist activities, as an important economic segment of world, need more attention on the part of Applied Social Sciences, in special of the International Relations. This article aims to initiate a discussion on this subject, based on the conceptual constructions of transnationalism and supranationalism, as well as the reconstruc tion of the notion of national sovereignty. The nations, in order to establish the globalized tourist activities, adapt their legislation under the orders of the international conventions, aiming the growth of employment rates, the increase of income, and social cultural economical and technological development, generated from the tourist activities, which put into motion trillions of dollars yearly.