Políticas Públicas para o turismo sustentável no estado do Amazonas: perspectivas e desafios, 2013-2016

Abstract

This dissertation presents a research on the contribution of the public politics for the development of the sustainable tourism in the state of the Amazonas. The public politics get together a set of interventions and guided actions of the State for the generation of impacts in the social relations. The tourism is object of public politics to be an activity of multiple dimensions pointed as a economic alternative that generates employment and income and the satisfaction of basic and secondary necessities of the men and women such as rest, leisure, knowledge and cultural renewal. Sometimes, the public politics incorporate the dimension of the sustainability, being worried to provide to access to the produced wealth and conservation of the environment. The boarding of the research was expressly qualitative and descriptive, accomplished by means of interviews the social actors who compose the productive chain of the tourism of Amazon. The documental research consisted to identify the public politics (PP) for the tourism in Amazon, from the survey of the Plans of Tourism of the State: Plan of Tourism of the State (2003-2007); Plan Regal Victory (2006-2010) and the Local Productive Arrangements of Ecological and Agricultural Tourism (2009-2012) and of the verification of its components of sustainability. During the analysis of documents, the public Politics of tourism directed to the development from the sustainable tourism were only selected. After that it was tried to demonstrate the effects of the public politics for the actors of the tourism system. For such actors of the State were interviewed (State Company of Tourism of the State, official agency of Tourism) and of Civil Society were interviewed (Trade, Associations, Forum, Council, IES, Researchers, Technician). Another procedure was to describe the perception of the touristic enterprisers of the Good Hope community, located in the city of President Figueiredo and the tourists. During the visit the community was interviewed enterprising touristic inhabitants of the community and applied questionnaires to the tourists. Although the documents present components of sustainability in accordance with the used indicators of supports as reference, the practice is opposed to official documents. Although incorporated to the speeches politicians, the concept of sustainable development has been used of imprudent form. The present programs and actions in the politics that point the valuation of the environment tend to delay more to be materialize when they leave the paper. The speech of the support has been used to legitimize the implantation of public politics that many times are indifferent the real necessities of the receiving communities. These politics have been guided excessively for the necessities of the market. Our studies conclude that the ―disdain‖ for the support must to a large extent to the process of taking of decisions in the scope of the tourism in Amazon, generally made ―from top to bottom‖, without taking in consideration the wills and yearnings of the communities.