eco-tourism is being developed more in brazil
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“Tourism is a social practice that involves displacement of people through the
territory and that has in its geographical space its main consumption object” [2].
The tourism history is recent and only in 1996 did the Federal Government
recognized its importance – strictly associated to economic advantages, “(…) it
does not involve huge investment and offers profit in return in relatively short
terms.(…)” EMBRATUR/IBAMA [4] – creating the National Council of
Tourism (CNTur) and the Embratur. Only in 1997 the Embratur published a
document containing basic rules to the Tourism National Policy.
After the Second World War, tourism and leisure reached such a growth level
that, from the economic point of view, they started to be considered as
“industries”, particularly in the main metropolis. The consequent life quality
improvement, the income increase and wasting capacity, the labour working
hours reduction, the enlargement in remunerated vacation periods and the more
democratic means of collective or particular transportation, promoted spectacular
development in population spatial mobility envisioning tourism.
Tourism and leisure can be done in nature, mainly in areas legally protected,
called Preservation Units (called Conservation Units or UCs in Brazil). It is a
kind of nature tourism that can present simultaneously recreation and leisure
activities, and it is growing fast all over the world. However to realize tourism
activities in Brazilian UCs does not mean that the tourist has a harmonious
relation among its components (water, soils, vegetation and fauna). The tourism
adequating nature spaces implies in spatial transformations that can promote
serious negative impacts if done disorderly and without adequate planning,
mainly in fragile ecosystems such as those tropical areas.
Thus, landscape search grows and also the diversity of spaces, increasing
value of urban periphery and countryside areas that assume important roles in
attracting other ways to recycle tourism with leisure and recreational activities.
This paper tries to give a practical-theoretical contribution to this question,
showing through examples how tourism in nature, particularly ecotourism, is
developed and managed in Brazil.