Turismo rural no Rio Grande do Norte: desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

The Rural Tourism appears as an economic alternative to the agricultural way, having to base itself on the revaluation of the local resources, as well as must be implemented through the local agents, a tourism of communitarian base. In this perspective the present objective work to analyze of that it forms if configures the tourist activity in the agricultural space of the Rio Grande do Norte, which the challenges and perspectives faced for the development of this activity. On the basis of this approach searched to argue on the deep transformations that the rural space comes suffering, with insertions of activities not-agriculturists, alternative for the effect of the economic reorganization, as well as on the public politics come back toward the Rural Tourism and an analysis concerning the activities of Rural Tourism that the Rio Grande do Norte comes developing and as this if it presents. As it arrives in port theoretical, we use the Concept of Territory, according to Saints, this if it makes pertinent in the conflicting analyses of the agricultural space for inside to embody of its conceptual picture the territorial dynamics substantiated by the relations politics, economic, social and cultural, where in them it made possible one better analysis in this process. As methodology bibliographical survey was used, in periodic, digital books, documents and interviews in some governmental spheres. The Great River of the North was evidenced that, signals for the development of the agricultural Tourism, therefore the state if presents with a gamma of potentialities, identified and developed some already being through some projects, however if it makes necessary a bigger involvement of all the spheres, considered basic so that this activity can be consolidated as plus a tourist segment in the RN.