O lugar dos resorts no processo de “urbanização turística” da Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza

Abstract

This article analyzes the role of the resorts in the process of "tourism urbanization" in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza (RMF). The socio-spatial transformations seen in RMF have a hybrid character, for contributing to this process, in addition to tourism, other socio-spatial dynamics (industrial, tertiary and real estate). At first, the article characterizes the manifestations of the "Tourist urbanization" in RMF, then it presents a brief conceptual approach of the phenomenon of resorts; further it emphasizes qualitative and quantitative aspects of its implementation in the Northeast and RMF; it lists the main impacts these changes caused by resorts in the metropolitan territory, based on the analysis of two integrated resorts: Aquiraz Riviera and the Cumbuco Golf Resort. Finally, it discusses the consequences of implementation of resorts in exacerbating the fragmentation and spatial segregation process that characterizes contemporary uneven urbanization in RMF.