Desenvolvimento para a vida: os sentidos do turismo comunitário em Caetanos de Cima, no assentamento Sabiaguaba - Amontada/CE

Abstract

This study examines the meanings of the community-based tourism to the Caetanos de Cima fishermen and agriculturists community, localized in the littoral of Amontada, estate of Ceará, linking the principles of this activity to the political, environmental, social and cultural dynamics of the community. It also presents a short historical about the constitution of Rede Tucum – Community-Based Tourism Network of Ceará and the principles of Turisol – Community-Based Tourism Network of Brazil. The methodology consisted in visits and observation about the local practices, semi structured interviews and questionnaires, and direct participation in the construction of the local community-based tourism experience and also in the regional and national community-based tourism networks presented. The conclusion explain about the specificities of Caetanos de Cima and his contribution to build the concept of community-based tourism through his craving and political experience that gives a different meaning to the word development – linking it to felicity – and also about the main challenges and virtuousness of the tourism activity in practice today at the community.