A importância turística do denominado " Monumento Natural do Vale dos Dinossauros" localizado no município de Sousa, alto sertão paraibano.

Abstract

This work has as its theme the tourist activity and as a general objective to analyze the tourist importance of the so-called "Monumento Natural Vale Dos Dinosaurs ", located in the city of Sousa-Pb, in the homonymous micro-region that forms part of the Geographical Mesoregion of Sertao Paraibano. We adopt as a reference The notion of geographic space proposed by Santos (1996) is theoretical. For the author this must be considered as "an inseparable set of systems of objects and systems of actions ". Data on the tourist flow were used considering the national scales, regional and state as well as the visitor record for the last five years of the area study object. Although the area is not defined as an important tourist destination numerically, the data showed that the area is visited both by people from the State as well as neighboring states and also foreign. It was also observed that there is a relationship between the importance of tourism in the State and in the area study. Likewise, it was found that the vast majority of visitors spend less than twenty-four hours in place which can be attributed to the type of tourism (scientific, ecological or cultural according to Embratur classification), as is known this type of tourism is not defined by a large number of fans. AND, secondly, the geographic location (distance and accessibility), I mean, the fact that it is about four hundred and twenty kilometers from the capital and one hundred and twenty seven kilometers from the nearest airport (Juazeiro do Norte-Ce), but also issues related to the lack of promotion of the place, of thinking about the place more broadly, not isolated. This reality could change if it were invested in the expansion of the area including the entire space of the Rio do Peixe Sedimentary Basin recognized as of value paleontological.