Sazonalidade do turismo no Município de Guaratuba, Paraná, Brasil

Abstract

The increasing importance that tourism has been taking over in global terms and particularly in some western economies, justifies the great attention given from public and private sectors, about a deeper knowledge of the tourist phenomenon. And inside this phenomenon arises the seasonality that is something very complex and its study can identify its impacts, its problems and to rationalize founded solutions in each situation or receiver community. The present study sought to characterize and to prove the existence of the tourist seasonality in Guaratuba, Paraná, Brazil, through the concepts approach related to tourism and tourism geography and turn them to the study of the seasonal tourism. Empirically this research characterized the study object, in other words, Guaratuba, and it questioned 11 direct and indirectly involved people to the tourism in the city, using focalized interview for posterior analysis and confirmation of the phenomenon, its causes and effects.