Um estudo do turismo em comunidades indígenas no Amazonas

Abstract

This research approaches tourism in indigenous communities in Amazonas state, highlighting the theoretical concepts and practices of development in their sustainable basis. It has the objective to interpret the social, economic and cultural transformations due to the visits of the tourist to the indigenous communities. Seeks to understand, through the eyes of indigenous and distinct theories, the relationship between the social interactions in the practices of tourism and its sustainable aspects. The study extends to indigenous communities in Manaus-AM, highlighting his economic strategy and the presentation to the tourism, of their intangible heritage, including their traditions and customs. Shows the effect of contact of the communities with the tourists, and analyzes the changes in the process of production of space, highlighting the promotion of development in its economic, social, environmental and cultural dimensions. It has been used a selection of interdisciplinary literature, a qualitative approach and a descriptive and interpretative study, using observation and description as a method to pick up the relationships and inter-relationships of the researched object with the enterprises, the institutions, the tourists and the communities. The study also discusses the relationship of communities with economic processes arising from tourist activities.