Avaliação de propostas públicas municipais e regionais no âmbito do planejamento integrado do turismo sustentável na Quarta Colônia, RS, Brasil.

Abstract

Tourism is essential to Brazil’s ambitious goals achievement, which are the promotion of Brazilian citizens, development and employment generation, regional development, management of the cultural and environmental heritages, as well as the reinforcement of the national identity. The tourist activity is a collective and individual phenomenon in different stages and perspectives. The objective of this research is to broaden the debate towards issues related to development processes of tourist activities in the Quarta Colonia region, situated in the central area of Rio Grande do Sul State, a region that deserves a particular attention due to the performance of the Sustainable Development Consortium. It analyses the actions which aim at the regional development oriented to enhance the environmental preservation, as well as the physical, human and social capital oriented to the development process and not only as a possibility of economic growth. It describes the actions on behalf of the tourist activity and the participation of citizens and institutions. The National Tourism Plan which aims to improve people’s future, contributes to the improvement of the population’s quality of life. The study intends also to discuss methodologies and concepts present in the theories of tourism from the perspective of interviews with key actors.