Turismo e sustentabilidade: um estudo sobre os recursos turísticos potenciais na Serra de Santa Catarina, São José da Lagoa Tapada - PB.

Abstract

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.