SUSTENTABILIDADE E ECOTURISMO: um estudo de multi-casos em agências turísticas do Município de Joinville / SC

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Before the uncontrolled growth from the world economies generated by the industrialization during the 20 th century, signs of environment exaustion are reflected on the society. Intending to soothe or eliminate the problems of the industrial development, the Organization of the United Nations (UN) comes leading in the last three decades, the conferences concerned to the social issues, as the increase populacional, the hunger and the concentration of income and mainly environmental, as the global heating and the exaustion of the natural resources. Discussed from the first conference, in 1972, with the Brundtland Report of the 1987, shows up the concept of sustainable development, having this way diffused its principles starting from 1992, with the RIO-92 Conference. With the diffusion increasing of the principle of the sustainability by many countries, the productive sectors also adopt them, in the attempt of to reduce or even eliminate many social and environmental problems generated by the intense natural resources exploration. Within of the agricultural, industrial and of services sectors, the companies start to use the sustainable term and the principles of the sustainability, as a more ethical and responsible posture face to the society and the environment. In the sector of services, the sustainable tourism get impulse with one of its modalities, the ecotourism. Considered a type of tourism to be offered in a sustainable way, its second concepts, the ecotourism comes growing quickly and it is used, nowadays, with the most varied objectives. Even so, the intense growth of its offer in natural environment tends to deviate the modality of the context of the sustentability. Thus, to study the dimensions of the sustentability present in the offer of the ecotourism, becomes its important, because, the generated impacts affect the local communities directly and to the natural environment. Considering that the companies involved in the offer of this modality, its have a great responsibility in the prevention, protection and preservation of the natural resources and cultural, this work had as objective, to analyze the sustainability of the ecotourism offered by three tourist agencies of the Municipal district of Joinville / SC, identifying the attendance of the dimensions of the sustainability and to indicate suggestions for improvements in the offer of the modality. With the multiple study of cases of the agencies ecotouristics in depth, this qualitative research obtained surprising results that can contribute to future of the ecotourism in the studied district. Besides, this work is a proposal of analysis of the sustainability, so much for ecotourism offered by companies of the touristic actitity, as for another sectors of the economy (or organizations), since, evidently, accomplished the due adaptations.

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crescimento sustentabilidade ecoturismo growth ecotourism desenvolvimento sustentável administracao sustainability

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