Relationship among tourism, ownership of land and heritage: a contribution to the planning of sustainable tourism in Bahia, Brazil

• Main Authors: Natanael Reis Bomfim, Djaneide Silva Argolo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Turismo 2008-10-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo
• Subjects: Turismo. Território. Planejamento Sustentável.
• Online Access: https://rbtur.org.br/rbtur/article/view/110

This article aims to analyze the relationship among land appropriation by tourism and its impacts in culture and environment, claiming for sustainable tourism planning in Cacau Seashore in Bahia. Discourses of several authors of planning issues who write on sustainable tourism and regional development in an inter-disciplinary base were analyzed. To value those communities held in the periphery of the economic system, who many times get into drug dealing or prostitution (and sex tourism in which Brazil is a world leader) for survival is evidenced.