Fique em casa! Os impactos da Covid19 no mercado de guias de turismo na região metropolitana de João Pessoa-PB.

Abstract

The Covid-19 highly communicable disease pandemic that had its first known case in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and was decreed as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization - WHO on January 20, 2020. On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic. The general objective of this research is to demonstrate what the impacts caused by Covid-19 in the sector of tourist guides in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa-PB. The specific objectives are briefly describe the emergence of Covid-19 in Brazil and in Paraíba; show the importance of the profession of tour guide, as well as its regulatory framework and profile; exemplify how social capital could be inserted in the tourism sector in times of pandemic; report the perceptions and socioeconomic impacts of tour guides in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa -PB in detriment of Covid-19. In order to measure, interpret the behavior, attitudes and motivations of the interviewees, it was used, in this research, the descriptive method, with a qualitative approach with field research, also using the bibliographic research. After the theoretical discussions and the compilation of research conducted on tour guides, it is possible to affirm that the pandemic has had an impact on the lives of these professionals, with the impossibility of exercising their trades and the decrease in their monthly income being the main impacts suffered by the Guides because of the pandemic in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa-PB.