O turismo comunitário em comunidades tradicionais na zona costeira do Ceará: em foco a experiência da Rede Tucum

Abstract

In the last decades, the Coastal Zone of Ceará is characterized by a recovery process, which has raised spots of conflicts in the use of space. Tourism becomes itself a factor in the process of social reproduction, creating new space-society relationship. This practice has focused initially on the coast, changing environment and local culture into consumer goods. Conflicts for the command of the land become common among land speculators, touristic businessmen and fishing communities who see their way of life and the right to the territory threatened by construction projects, especially touristic ones, and started from the 1980s, resistance movements. The process of community organization is highlighted by additional ways of generating income, which gave rise to the need for a channel to link the communities involved in the construction of community tourism. Thus, in 2006, articulated by the eight communities, one coastal town and three supporting cores, the Ceará’s Community Tourism Network – Rede Tucum. Recognizing the organization’s movement of associations and community groups is preponderant to maintain the activities related to community tourism. Analyze how the fishing communities develop community-based tourism experiences and identify the network Tucum in participating communities are the goals of this research. In this research were used proceedings related to action-research, plus the participation in events such as annual meetings, collegial meetings, workshops and rounds of conversations in the communities the opportunity of collective construction, the approach to the proposed theme, which served as background for the analysis of the reality of community-based tourism in Ceará.