Dissertação
Geoturismo e geoparques na região central do Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil
Fecha
2023-02-16Autor
Marczewski, Richard Kohler
Institución
Resumen
The central region of the Rio Grande do Sul state - Brazil features several geotouristic
attractions and development potential under initiatives such as the aspiring geoparks Quarta
Colonia e Cacapava as well as the project Geopark Raizes de Pedra. These areas are
characterized by a large geodiversity, featuring many geoassets as well. At the center of these
areas lies the city of Santa Maria, which has potential to be the gate city to the region, because
it already features charachteristics for such, like services, infrastructure and accesses. Under
this field of study, it was pursued to apply concepts developed still in the seventies in Europe
for the evaluation of tourism centers that aim to nucleate initiatives to develop the region as a
whole. In addition to this methodology we aimed, by means of a questionnaire and interviews,
to understand the dynamics of these areas, and subsequently to propose centers of tourism
development for a better regional development. Thus this work had two approaches to provide
a theroretical framework for the proposals, namely tourism and geographic charachteristics.