SARMENTO, Franksymara Maques.
Resumen:
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.
