Por um turismo para as comunidades locais

Abstract

Tendo em vista uma preocupação com as pequenas comunidades receptoras de turismo que não interagem com autonomia na gestão da atividade, a ideia principal do texto se sustenta na afirmação de que é necessário conhecer a constituição de uma comunidade como grupo cultural e as suas relações com o lugar para indicar caminhos pelos quais o turismo poderia ter o protagonismo dos moradores.

Social Participation and Tourism Public Policy: The Brazilian Tourism Regionalization Program

“…For Nitsche (2013), in most cases, the local community does not work with tourism projects, maintaining total dependence on public power, subject to several problems in constructing effective policies, such as public management changes. Feger & Veis (2018, p. 113) exemplifies that the distancing of local actors in tourism projects can be caused by "[...] non-acceptance of tourism in the city or region, ignorance of the program, the depoliticization of society, aversion to the impacts of tourism, limiting the long-term vision, among others".…”

“…Or even because there is no planning capable of encompassing local interests and needs that the tourist activity would supply, indifference may materialize, and in some cases even provoke rejection on the part of local subjects (Czernek, 2013;Nitsche, 2013). Therefore, residents' need for tourism governance must be linked to improving the collaborative decision-making process with different tourism agents.…”