Delivering on the objectives of a research project undertaken in the tourism sector can be challenging, especially on account of the economic and societal changes that the world is going through. Among the critical success factors of a research project one should mention the ability to obtain the necessary funding to support the initiation and implementation of that action and to find the ways to cope with a dinamic, complex and competitive global research environment. The latter could be easily done through association, given the fact that the chances of success could be increased by relying on a collaborative organisation of individuals working together to provide support in finding the accesible sources of funding and the proper ways to collect, evaluate, analyze, organize and disseminate information.