Hotellogy - A New Branch of Philosophy of Science

Abstract

A phenomenon is an embryo that comes from each science, and each science will have a branch of science. As a science, tourism has many branches of sub tourism science. One branch of tourism science is hotellogy. Hotellogy comes from the word of hotel and logy; hence hotellogy is the study of all tourist activities and the surrounding communities and other things related to tourism. There are three terms of science, e.g., ontology, axiology, and epistemology, which make the hotellogy has strong parallels with other existing sciences. Hotellogy is always dynamic and adaptive to the local and global community that has descriptive and predictions functions in various dimensions; therefore, the development of hotellogy is based on the three systems, e.g., social, economic, and biological systems. This research focuses on exploring hotel studies in Indonesia by pieces of literature. There is an opportunity for researchers to examine the situation of hotels in various countries so that the general results between countries regarding the existence of hotels will become complete and waveform knowledge so that the universal identity will become a universal identity of hotellogy becomes stronger.