Turismo e Sustentabilidade: identificação dos principais impactos Socioambientais Provenientes das atividades Turísticas no Município de Baía da Traição/PB

Abstract

Tourism in coastal areas is a way of leisure based on the natural landscape, on cultural heritage and on some Brazilian countryside regions social development. When this activity is performed in a sustainable manner, differently from the mass tourism, it creates a main goal of promoting a united environmental comprehension in its multiple complex relations, involving natural aspects, socioeconomic, cuzltural and ethical from some regions. That said, it’s thought that this sustainable tourism poses as an alternative for the natural ecosystem’s maintenance, plus, promoting economical, social and ecological sustainability, it goes against then the stake of those who promotes a lawless tourism deemed by the degradation of natural resources and social exploitation This research is based on this context, with the purpose of identifying the main social and environmental impact from the mass tourism performed in Baía da Traição city, located in Paraíba northern littoral. Furthermore, this paper treats the city touristic potentialities and the importance of installing another type of tourism which is aimed at ecological principles, taking into account the region historical and cultural reality. This research is qualitative and explorative study, since the adopted procedures for performing the work consist of soundly comprehending the problem or the object of study to be investigated. In order to perform them, many methodological procedures were applied: documental and bibliographic review about the thematic in question, in loco observation with photographic records, interviews with the local residents and data analyses based on the light of the theoretical principles. The research shows up the lack of studies in Baía da Traição city which promote a touristic activity lined by sustainability principles. The mass tourism performed on the field of this study threatens all historical and cultural region heritages, besides it creates a number of environmental impacts to the varied environmental systems. This sort of predatory activity has made possible the quick population growth of the city, just as well its lawless shoreline occupation.