| dc.description | Since the 1980s, global tourism activity has
consolidated worldwide to become an important economic
contributor, and consequently, the sociocultural and environmental
impacts are starting to become evidenced. This raises the need of
discussing about actions for sustainable tourism that should be linked
not only to the economy, but also to the environment and social
aspects. The work that is going to be presented is part of a doctoral
research project in Sciences undertaken at the Sao Paulo University,
Brazil. It aims to analyze whether the monitoring of the tourism
sector with a focus on sustainability is applicable or not, through
those indicators, put in a case study in the Jalap??o State Park (JSP)
conservation unit, in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. This is a study of
an interdisciplinary nature that had the deductive method as its guide.
We concluded that the key points of the sustainable tourism, when
analyzed with the focal point in environmental indicators, are an
important evaluation and quantification tool of that activity in the
study locus. It displayed itself as an adequate tool for monitoring,
thus decoding, the main environmental impacts that occur in tourism
regions and their intensity, which is made possible through analysis,
and has the objective to trace ways to prevent and correct the
presented impacts. | |
