O turismo rural como oportunidade de negócios no Marajó oriental: Soure e Salvaterra.

Abstract

Considering that tourism can be an element of promotion of the local development this work analyzes the perspective of the impact of the agricultural tourism as a business-oriented chance in the Eastern Marajo in the cities of Soure and Salvaterra, inductors of tourism inclusion in Marajo’s polar region in “Beija-Flor” Project of the Government of the State of Para in the - Development and Tourism Offer Program - “PDOT” implanted in 2000. It presents the official and statistical data of public and private institutions delimiting the recurrent potentials and threats to the inclusion of the tourism as promotional agent of the local development. Thus one discourses on tourism and its dimensions in the local development and its applicability implications in Amazonia Based on the used methodologies in Redesist Diagnosis for Local Productive Tourism Arrangements “APL” , in the Theory of Systems defended by Beni (2006) and in the Reports of the Support Service of the Micro and Small Companies - “SEBRAE/PA” added of Swot Analysis method a research had been applied in five agricultural farms:; They are “Bom Jesus”, “Jeronimo”, “Araruna”, “Sanjo” and “Nossa Senhora Do Carmo”, respectively, four located in the city of Soure and one in the city of Salvaterra. All of them, agricultural farms, are involved in the “PDOT”-2000. It detaches the debate that the agricultural tourism can promote the development and its support since that it is well planned.