Turismo e metropolização na região metropolitana de Fortaleza

Abstract

The object of study of this work is an analysis of the contemporary metropolization occurred in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza (RMF) caused by tourism from the 1990s and encouraged by the policies and public and private interventions in metropolitan territory. The objective is to understand the role played by tourism in the RMF spatial structure, identifying how the social practice of tourism influence the process of production, consumption and ownership of metropolitan coast area in the context of globalization, identifying the socio-spatial consequences of these transformations above inequality and socio-spatial segregation and environmental impacts. The relevance of this work is sustained within the qualitative and quantitative transformations that have passed the Northeast cities of Brazil with the advent of planned tourism, inserted on public discourse and policies of states as redeemer in reversing the historical framework of regional inequality in the Northeast is. Tourism, under the influence of globalization, prints new paradigms of planning, management and structure of urban and regional space, such as the expansion of coastal development through the construction of hotels, resorts and new types of secondary residence, beyond the commercialization of space dedicated to leisure. The work deals with the expansion of coastal and touristic urbanization in coastal towns of RMF, highlighting the differences with the occupation occurred in Fortaleza. Among the main factors that influenced the coastal urbanization, emphasizes the development the phenomenon of second homes and their current connection with tourism. Finally shows the valorization of coastal empty and the colonization process of the coastal by the tourism through the resorts.