Summary: | The aim of this article is discussing the tourism planning and occupation in Trindade Village,located in Paraty, south coast at the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Besides the existence of tourismplanning in the village, tourism has been creating a lot of conflicts, which this article intends to discuss.Does the existence of planning imply the maximization of the positive impacts of tourism and their betterdistribution? Does it minimize the negative impacts? Does the planning link to the activity's organizedgrowing? Does it contribute for the tourism to become a factor of local development? Those questionswill be discussed by taking as example a town in which there have been significant investments inthe activity, becoming a reference as tourism destination in the National Setting
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