Resumo: It is unquestionable that, today, Tourism is a complex phenomenon with heterogeneous profiles encompassing very different fields (economic, legal, political, cultural...). Initially, within the plurality of the relationships involved in the concept, those connected, to a greater or lesser extent, to tourism management and accommodation are particularly significant. What seemed unimaginable or even extravagant half a century ago is now a common and frequent circumstance in the proposed scenario, in particular, within the complex and scarcely analyzed field of hotel management. In line with the above, this study will analyse, assuming that the inter-business cooperation in the tourism sector can be based on capital or contractual relationships, the essential shaping factors (hotel manager and owner of the hotel managed) on which to develop an ordered concept as a preliminary step for establishing a basic legal system.
