Atividade turística e relações socioambientais: o setor Esplanada no município de Rio Quente (GO) - 1990 a 2014
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2015-06-22
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Humanity's constant search to know and understand the nature and its transformations leads us
to questions and in-depth studies, especially listing the actions of Homo sapiens itself as a major
modifier of the medium. In this context, we propose to investigate the tourism, with its social
and environmental issues, limited and restricted to Rio Quente municipality (GO) through a
comparison between the years 1990 and 2014. In addition to the permissive factor for economic
development, tourism aroused the interest of scientists and geographers due to environmental
impacts, forcing public and private managers to take responsibility and different postures. Thus,
this work presents reflections considering the important concepts of Geography in the tourism
approach and analysis of the environmental impacts of this activity. To this end, different stages
were developed: literature searches, field and / or laboratory. Thus, it appears, at first, one of
Tourism Geography literature; in a second time a review of the history of tourism; In a third
step in a dialogue with the various authors dealing with the social and environmental impacts;
and on the fourth time, we present an analysis of the perception of the human population on the
Rio Quente municipality in this regard. Considering the peculiarity of the region, the tourist
concentration on his unique place in Sector Esplanada and its great distance from the center and
other districts of the city, it was decided to define the sector Esplanada as the main focus of the
study. Tourism in Rio Quente municipality (GO), as analyzed, showed an exponential growth
after the 1990 The increase in the number of tourists caused, hence the increase in public
revenue from tourist activities in Sector Esplanada. This growth showed, however, various
environmental issues and the transformation of the local landscape, especially in the sector in
question who were the pillars of this study. The results obtained allow us to understand how the
tourism phenomenon has influenced the new forms of appropriation and use of space, its
commercialization, the willingness of the local culture and landscape. Further, the work allowed
the identification of positive and negative impacts generated by tourism activity and turn to
issues such as jobs, recreation for the local population, quality of life, income, among others.
Therefore, the dissertation discuss the issue of tourism in this municipality goiano through the
various concepts and the reality experienced by the native local population, serving as a
reference, including, for improved management or actions to balance the identified
environmental impacts. To extract relevant information when searching and studying the
environmental and tourism issues, this dissertation added information regarding the concepts of
geography, specifically, the positive and negative impacts that permeate tourism in Rio Quente
(GO). This reflection involves, above all, the local human population, enabling the participation
of citizens in the construction of the study, which contributed to the consistent thread of
scientific reasoning, aligning it with the theoretical framework presented. The research
presented here can only be considered an initiative, a tool and even a warning to the public and
private agencies in Rio Quente municipality (GO) and surrounding with regard to the perception
that local people have the their environmental projects in Sector Esplanada, to show their
satisfaction or dissatisfaction, when comparing the application of economic resources in the
1990-2014 period.
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Geografia do turismo, História do turismo, Impactos socioambientais do turismo, Rio Quente (GO), Tourism geography, History of tourism, Social and environmental impacts of tourism
Citação
RAMOS, R. V. O. Atividade turística e relações socioambientais: o setor Esplanada no município de Rio Quente (GO) - 1990 a 2014. 2015. 257 F. Dissertação (Mestrado em Geografia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Catalão, 2015.