TOMAZ, B. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0870745346270953; TOMAZ, Benedita Martins.
Resumen:
Tourism is an economic activity that has been gaining momentum worldwide, reaching
to be compared to other branches of the economy, such as the automotive, military and
Pharmaceutical Our country is privileged of biodiversity and geodiversity, besides
considerable cultural, historical and landscape heritage, which are undoubtedly important
elements that drives tourism. However, most of our cities have large
potential to develop tourism, but unfortunately few are known or
explored. For this reason, the objective of this paper is to identify the tourism resources
Santa Catarina Mountains in order to propose alternative forms of use and occupation
adding tourist value to the municipality of São José da Lagoa Tapada-PB, and
future to other municipalities that limit themselves with the mountains, a new economic activity
complement existing ones, which would promote their recognition and generate income for
local population, without major aggressions to the environment, and in particular, the mountains, which
suffers from the effects of agricultural, livestock and illegal and predatory logging.
wood. The study has a descriptive and exploratory character, and used as procedures
bibliographic research, observation, field research, photographic record and
oral history, for knowledge of the subject and achieve the goal. The results of this analysis
show, at first, the points in the mountains with potential for tourist use and, in
secondly, the proposal to aggregate the principles of ecotourism for the purpose of
promote: environmental conservation of the area; environmental, visitor and resident education; and
inclusion of the local community.
