Avaliação da política pública da Secretaria de Turismo de Fortaleza no enfrentamento a exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

This thesis stablishes as the main objective (goal) the analysis of the Fortaleza Tourism Secretary program that takes on children and youth sexual exploitation. Considering the importance of this theme in the public politics I used a qualitative methodology in articulation to a quantitative methodology to analyze the actions developed by the Tourism Secretary through the results obtained from this especifc research. As a result, it was identified the necessity of a more intensive articulation with the tourism “trade” as well as whit the State Tourism Secretary in order to promote reflections to stablish partnership for the development of actions in group. Even thou ones admit the existence of the children and youth sexual exploitation in Fortaleza, those who were interviewed repudiate the great importance that is given by the national and international press to that theme, considering that as a “business competition” of other tourist where – abouts. Key words: Tourism, children and youth