Os desafios do turismo no contexto da sustentabilidade: as contribuições do turismo de base comunitária

Abstract

The construction of a model of sustainable tourism development able to generate economic and social benefits at the same time minimize the environmental impacts, requires attention to issues related to participatory management. In this context, community -based tourism is presented as a tourism development practice that is able to point out paths to sustainability, provided that it is rooted in the participation and social leadership of local populations. This paper proposes a theoretical discussion about the dilemmas and perspectives of participatory management in the context of sustainable tourism through the proposed of community -based tourism. As a synthesis, it´s evidenced the premise of importance of social participation in the current systemic configuration of tourism in which the activity is overcoming the merely economic image to get new dimensions, transversalities and interdependencies.