Modelos relacionais para a organização e o desenvolvimento regional do turismo.

Abstract

The tourism’s model of decentralized and participatory management established by Tourism Ministry must enable the relationships between the various spheres of public management and the different scales of private initiative’s representation and the Third Sector. In this way, this study, named Modelos Relacionais para a Organização e o Desenvolvimento Regional do Turismo (Relational Models for the Organization of Tourism and Regional Development), investigated the existence, the form and the shaping of the experienced relationships in Vale do Contestado at Santa Catarina, in a region called Hortênsias and in the Costa Doce Region at Rio Grande do Sul. For this purpose, we used the scientific method in their empiricalanalytical modality "inspired" by Dynamic Principle of Epistemology, supported by a inductive approach with a not qualitative experimental methodology. The adopted procedure was multiple case studies involving the gather of secondary data through literature review about the main themes regarding to the subject, and documentary regarding searched regions; Besides empirical research carried out through direct observation and developed through extensive application of semi-structured interviews. The presentation of search results is done descriptively and the interpretation and analysis of data was done by numerical identification of coincident answers/situations, by indentifying similar and/or equivalents answers/situations and by comparing them, leading us to see that the existing relationships for the organization of tourism in regional locus occur easily, consensual, funded by the municipalities and in two of the studied cases are former to the regionalization processes initiated by the Tourism Ministry. They lack, however, structuring / modeling in terms of macro networks and functionality, and encouraging the talents of expertise in terms of continuing education in research, marketing and planning.