Parkour: uma alternativa ao esporte de aventura na natureza para o turismo no Estado da Paraíba

Abstract

Parkour is a practice of contemporary French origin, however with ancient roots, understood as a body manifestation, which consists of moving quickly, fluently and efficiently between obstacles present in a course. This research aims to evaluate the potential of Parkour as an alternative to adventure sports in nature, expanding tourism activities in the state of Paraíba, through a qualitative phenomenological study, with a exploratory typology, cross-sectional study, with data collected fitting in a focus group and content analysis, involving civil servants, professionals and students in the areas of Tourism, Education and Physical Education, as well as practitioners of Parkour and adventure sports in nature. According to the reports of the participants, this study resulted in the possibility of leveraging the practice, boosting tourism and inserting the Professional of Physical Education into this market. It is concluded that this study had made Parkour possible as an alternative to adventure sports in nature, production of academic works of the modality executed in natural environment, insertion of the professional in Physical Education in the training for the development of activity as well as in the interprofessional production of other researches.