A Atividade turística: uma análise integrada para uma construção sustentável

Abstract

The tourism has been related to the idea of that if it uses of the natural resources without causing great impacts. Therefore, efforts have been become fullfilled, in the direction to insert areas preserved in the relation of the tourist exploration. However, clear evidences are had of that this activity exerts a “arguable protection” and many times contribute for the destruction of these areas. Therefore, it must be had parsimony to if associating the tourism the preservation idea, ambient or cultural valuation. For in such a way, politics directed to the conscientious exploration of the space for the tourist activity that care for the conservation and maintenance of the local culture, as well as by the preservation of the natural environment they must be reformulated. For this analysis the city of Aracati was elect, having as space clipping the city of Canoa Quebrada, for being a littoral area with many natural and cultural tourist potentialities. The development of the tourist activity in the region promoted diverse social, economic and environmental transformations in such a way space how much. However, the evolution of the tourism in the region was not folloied by an adjusted territorial planning, what it allowed the formation of a peculiar space, when it is analysed under the point of view of the occupation of the territory. These works the accomplishment diagnosis of the city, based on studies of the tourism local evolution had as objective generality, analyzing the social and environmental impacts of the tourism in the locality. Being carried through ample bibliographical revision, documentary about the principles of the tourist planning and sustainable development, allies the field research, application of questionnaires. On the basis of these elements, a register of the local perception was presented on the form as if it developed the tourist activity in the locality and of the social and environmental impacts. It was proven, as final recommendations the importance of the development planning about environmental politics for a sustainable development, based on the integrated handling of the natural resources and cultural of a society.