Parque Nacional Canaima: a identidade sócio-ambiental dos atores sociais na gestão do turismo no Monte Roraima

Abstract

The nature tourism, whose, growth is about 10% to 30% a year, it is one of the segments more notables of the industry of the tourism and it embraces you practice alternatives as the ecoturismo and the adventure tourism. In the perspective of the development of this modality of tourism outdoors, the National Park of Canaima represents an option of having raised importance, considering that she receives about 50.000 TO 100.000 people year, and for the fact of being tumbled as World Natural Patrimony by UNESCO. The research seeks to analyze the attractions and partner-environmental and tourist that direct actors or indirectly they interact with the Park of Canaima in the South Section in Monte Roraima, analyzing, it influences her and development of practices of the tourism in your daily one. With relationship to the technical means, the research is of the exploratory and descriptive type, tends as objective the observation of the visited place, without alterations of the data and information. Through visitations in loco it will be possible to collect the data and necessary information for the development and conclusion of the work. The analysis of the partner-environmental aspects will be accomplished in two analysis phases: In the first, they are, the communities' of Paraytepuy of Roraima indigenous residents and San Francisco of Yuruaní, the study universe will be constituted by Guides, local Loaders, Agencies, the indigenous managers of INPARQUES, residents and visitors. The instrument of collection of data will be structured in questionnaires of closed questions, with the intention of to classify and to classify the interviewees in different groups. The structured interview develops a fixed relationship of questions, whose order and composition stays equal for all the interviewees (Gil, 1999). In the second phase, the interviews will be semi-structured, composed by a list of questions or themes key, leaving the free researcher to approach related themes that eventually will appear in elapsing of the same. In the studies of this type, frequently, it is fallen back upon the informal interviews with informer-keys that can be specialist in the theme in study, formal leaders and you inform or outstanding people. (GIL, 1999). Catlin in 1841, already mentioned the possibility to have a National Park, with human beings and you encourage all together ones in a perfect syntony. The focus in the need of understanding each other the existent complexities in these configurations of partner-environmental and tourist relationships, inside of Units of Conservation, they motivated the development of this research, being still believed in the diffusion possibility for anybody common of the community manauara, as well as other visitors.