O turismo de massa e a cidade: processos de integração versus segregação socioespacial em capitais nordestinas (Recife-PE e Natal-RN) a partir de registros (VLOGS) de viagem de turismo doméstico

Abstract

One important relation of tourism worldwide today is the capacity of approximating visitors and residents. On the other hand, it is possible to observe tourist destinations in which the travel experiences are ordained in majority by socio-spatial segregation, spite the existence of destinations marked by the integration tourist-resident. The tourist landscapes, which in this paper will be represented by Recife-PE and Natal-RN destinations, can contribute to reveal excluding tourist enclaves and leisure practices inside a social order, visible or subtle, where visitors and residents possess contrasting geographic imageries about these spaces. That said, the present work results from an analysis of the integration versus segregation processes of the tourist with a large part of the residing population of the studied northeastern capitals, having in view that these processes have place in a landscape determined by the city urban plan, that is, a set of actions undertaken by the public and private powers over the tourism segment, in addition to the particularities of the territorial scope of these cities. In this way, the general objective of the work is to assess the integration versus segregation socio-spatial processes based on the landscape and contents represented in videos of travel registers (2014-2016), highlighting specifically the coming up of two perspectives of integration versus segregation in tourist cities. For this purpose, perspective maps concerning the studied capitals are created with focus in the synthetization of the landscapes extracted from the travel registers (videos). In this regard, the work presents a qualitative approach supported on the content analysis of the travel registers of posted videos on the sharing site YouTube based on the variable square synthetizing the approach. The result of this is the confirmation of the hypothesis that such elements (city urban plan, actions of the public and private powers over the tourism segment, and the territorial configuration), when come to light in Recife-PE and Natal-RN cities show, by one side, an integrating destination, and, by the other, a disintegrating destination, considering either the socio-spatial or the tourism perspectives.