Culturas de ordenamento territorial do turismo das regiões metropolitanas de Fortaleza-CE, Natal-RN, Recife-PE e Salvador-BA

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the different planning cultures of tourism metropolitan areas of Fortaleza-CE, Natal-RN, Recife-PE, and Salvador-BA. We started from the hypothesis that, while tourism in these Metropolitan Regions (MRs) have been developed from the same process of structuring the activity in the northeastern territory of Brazil, mainly by structuring programs, as PRODETUR I, believed that there were influential local factors that defined, over time, different orderings of tourism in these MRs. Therefore, the theoretical-conceptual analysis of geographical space was based on the definition of Estaba (1999) on the concept of spatial planning. The methodological procedures were an adaptation of the Knieling; Othengrafen (2009a, 2009b) proposal, which states that, for the understanding of different planning cultures, it is necessary to characterize the "local culture", in the case related to the tourism sector. The working hypothesis was confirmed, as it was found that tourism was inserted in MRs from different ideological conceptions about that, according to actors, political and economic realities and local interests, planned and institutionalized the activity in their respective territories from different perspectives.