Planejamento do turismo de base comunitária: perspectivas críticas

Abstract

This article presents critical reflections about the planning of communitarian context tourism, starting on the theoretical debate about the concepts, applications and meanings of planning in Brazil. For this, part of some guidance questions, namely: which are the meanings of social participation? Which knowledges one waits set up with the planning of tourism with and by communities? How is the role of a tourism graduate on the planning in a community-based tourism? We believe that the sense of planning of a communitybased tourism in Brazil needs to be discussed on the light of social participation theory, of communitarian development, as well as of participative planning. These perspectives allow more clarity and critical lecture about the interventional processes in the territories so-called community, which lead us to the reflection of the limits and potentialities of the connotation of the social participation. What we can think is that the public polices of tourism did not legitimates the genuine senses of a social participation. The theoretical discussion refers arguments about the risks to copy the formal logic in communitarian contexts and that encourage the autonomy in the so-called communities.