A rede do turismo no Norte de Minas: planejamento, regionalização, territorialidades e desenvolvimento social nos caminhos dos gerais

Abstract

This master degree dissertation constitutes at the same time a reflexive return to the accumulated knowledge about the tourism and the background of my previous researches, in other words, the first evaluation of the works that I have done so far about the development of the tourism in the north of Minas Gerais. The author intensify his reflections about the formation of the tourism net in the north of Minas, as a field of possibilities for the regional development. The theoric-methodologic background supports itself in Works with a reference turned to the geographic social-cultural analysis of the touism. The general purpose of this work is reflect as a tourism contemporary expression that pass and establish itself in the north of Minas Gerais, and articulate by solid means, in parallel conditions, in order to ensure the regional development based in a different logic besides the capital one. The dissertation presents as a concentration area: Social Development: Power, Social-econimic processes and territorial ordering. The research line is: Social-economic processes and Territorial ordering. The scientific method that leads this work turns itself to the Historic-structural dialectic considered proper to handling the reality, even natural and social. In the same direction, the construction of the methodological field, finds in the Sistema Turismo – SISTUR, proposed by professor Mario Carlos Beni, a large and rich concept that set itself as a important tool of this investigation. The investigation methodological strategy comprehends the convergence of invesigative-reflexive movements and cooperative processes that compose the research, besides the bibliographic research. Its proposed a qualitative approach methodology. The problem investigated question how the Tourism, from its contradictions, can promote social development in the north of Minas Gerais. Regarding the answers to the presented problem, we foresee that in a point of view the tourism generates an increscent intense and expressive environmental, social and economical impact to the space and culture, and in another hand it can be perceived an evolution of the tenable models of local base, when it is adapted to the local realities where it occurs.