Gestão de turismo, cultura e identidades religiosas: ensaio de um novo conceito com base na compreensão do território
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Tourism has been perceived by international organizations as an activity with great potential to promote economic development, as well as to enhance cultures and the preservation of natural landscapes. In Bahia State, Brazil, according to the national and international guidelines, tourism is understood as an industry with great potential to generate jobs and revenue, and is strengthened through the promotion of cultural diversity that is associated with the syncretism of Catholicism and Candomblé religions. To understand the management of tourism in the setting that combines culture, religion and territorial development, this essay points out limitations in both theoretical concepts available in the literature: the concept of cultural tourism, and the concept of religious tourism. A new concept is proposed: ‘tourism in territories of high religious density’. This interdisciplinary essay engages the understanding of the fields of anthropology and geography for management. It concludes that the theoretical discussion has an explanatory potential for the tourism activities in other territorial scales and contexts.
Author: Siegrid Guillaumon
Language: Portuguese
Topic: Religious Tourism and Spaces
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1769739175