Análise da aptidão para o turismo de base comunitária no entorno do Parque Nacional Serra de Itabaiana

Abstract

Tourism is an economic activity that is become an important vector of economic and social development worldwide. However, the growth of tourism, as well as other economic activities, requires planning and management to minimize negative impacts and, particularly, to maximize the positive. To counteract the negative impacts of tourism and enjoy the benefits of the activity, it is observed that in some localities from different countries through the mobilization and organization of civil society, several different initiatives based on local ways of life, emerged in that the dimensions of sustainability are prerequisites for structuring the supply of tourist activities. In this perspective, there are practices of community-based tourism. For this reason, and seeking to harness the potential of the Sierra de Itabaiana National Park, located in the state of Sergipe, this work studied the communities Serra, Bom Jardim and Rio das Pedras, located around the National Park Serra de Itabaiana in order to assess eligibility for Community Based Tourism tapping the potential of that park. To this end, this research is characterized as exploratory and descriptive, the interview sources, direct and participant observation were used. It was concluded that it is implementing a community-based tourism causes the enhancement of cultural identity of the people, generates employment and income, raising the level of economic and social communities, in addition to raising the environmental awareness of residents, considering that the community-based tourism has the main assumption environmental enhancement of the region.