Turismo de base comunitária com foco em gênero: estudo de caso na Comunidade Morro Santo Antônio, Município de Itabira-MG

Abstract

The participative methodologies with emphasis in gender are those who try to promote awareness and qualification for the gender relations. Their use can help to plan local tourist projects because through them it’s possible to identify gender inequalities, to promote real participation of women and men and, therefore, to combat the reproduction of unequal conditions in the access to the benefits of development tourist activity. In this sense, the aim of this article is to present the results of the participatory process in creating a proposal for self-management of community-based tourism with emphasis in gender built in Morro Santo Antônio Quilombola Community located in Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was observed from this case study, that the use of participative methodologies with emphasis on gender ally to the community-based tourism proposal contributed positively to the self-management proposal made by the community, besides being more critical and contextualized to their local reality, did not reaffirm gender inequalities already established in it.