Turismo comunitário na Prainha do Canto Verde : uma perspectiva da Economia Ecológica

Abstract

The present work refers to the study of the community tourism network in Brazil, specifically the case of Prainha do canto Verde, located in the municipality of Beberibe, in the State of Ceará, about 115 miles from the Capital, Fortaleza, from the point of the view of the economy ecological practices and their guidings principles. The research methodology is characterized as the type of exploratory method with a qualitative approach and the one used was the documental onde. For the data collection, course completion works, theses and dissertations, related and correlated with the theme were analyzed to establish a theoretical framework and a reflection on Community Tourism in the Extractive Reserve of Prainha do Canto Verde. Using the words ‘’Community Tourism’’ and ‘’ Prainha do Canto Verde, 4 works were found that fit the filters used (works published in the last 15 years; in Portuguese. Course Completion Works, Master’s Dissertations and/or Theses. Blog, sites, linked to Ceará tourism were also used as a basis for research, such as the website of the Ceará community tourism network and the Prainha do Canto Verde website. It is believed that communit y tourism, by defending cultural identify and environmental conservation, guided by a bias of ecological economics, in tune with its political-pedagogical bases, expresses in practice, principles of a biocentric paradigm, where degrowth pointed out as strong possibility and good living as a horizon.