O processo de desenvolvimento do turismo em São Domingos do Capim – PA a partir do fenômeno desencadeador “Surfe na Pororoca”

Abstract

In the North Area (State of Pará), the municipal district São Domingos do Capim is located. It presents outstanding characteristic and typical of the Amazon area, offering a not very explored natural deferential, the phenomenon of the “pororoca.” In that sense, and inside of that regional context, the work looked for to investigate the contribution of the tourism for the maintainable development of São Domingos do Capim, starting from the “it surfs in the pororoca.” For so much, it was necessary to lift the pertinent bibliography to the sustainable tourism; to define the regional and local partner-space organization of São Domingos do Capim; to investigate the social actors perception and its role in the current process of tourist development to the light of the paradigm of the sustainable; finally to formulate some maintainable proposals to give subsidies to the local and regional public politics in the section. The methodological investigation was looked for in the empiric research, in a quantitative and qualitative approach, and in the paradigm of the sustainable. In the analysis of the regional and local partner-space organization, lacks were detected in several levels, from basic infrastructure to conflicts of order partner-politics in the maintenance of the power of the dominant elites. In the investigation of the social actors perception, the civil society said that the benefits resulting from “tourism” they are still few. Being added to that aspect, there is pressing of planning of the activity returned to the regional characteristics and local. But for that he/she should improve the conditions of life the population firstly and also the possibility to give them productive alternatives. Meanwhile not if effective, the tourism appears as more a local socioeconomic possibility. The partnership among community, non government organizations, teaching institutions, publics sector’s (Federal, State and Municipal) and the private, if considered initiative its contributions and suggestions, cannot to increase the economy from the position, be through the incentive to new enterprises, opening of work positions, incentive the other alternatives of income as the craft and the tourist services, as well as, educational campaigns to influence and to raise to value of the culture. For that, they should be thought strategies of local development in which among is contemplated the several modalities the ecoturism.