Por uma cidade turística : formação e transformação territorial da Estância de Campos do Jordão (SP) - (1911-1966).

Abstract

This research has as object the Campos do Jordão resort located in the Vale do Paraíba in São Paulo. The history of this territory reveals a joint process of transformation to other Brazilian regions: the deployment of a health resort in a tourist resort. Created under the auspices of the epidemic fears and hygienists models Campos do Jordão resort was the scene of different actors, among which stand out medical and important politicians who shaped, conditioned and constituted the new use for this territory - tourism, unveiling this process important changes and spatial interactions. In this sense, the goal is to understand how was the territorial formation of the object of study analyzing how was the production and development of tourism and urban space. Therefore, delimited research in the time interval 1911-1966 covering this periodization since the beginning of the territory urbanization process, marked by the idealization of Campos do Jordão Railroad in 1911 until 1966, at which time the tourism policy is consolidated not only in the territory, but especially at the national level, during which it created the Brazilian Tourism Institute (IBRATUR). As methodological approach used the theoretical guidelines proposed by the group of French researchers from MIT Equipé - Mobilité, Itinéraires, Tourismes together with concepts and theories proposed by researchers Milton Santos and Henry Lefebvre. Research results show that the formation and territorial transformation of Campos do Jordao are the result of actions by different actors, serving personal interests, conditioned the uses of the territory for the health and tourism.