Turismo e economia solidária: experiências comunitárias e processo de desenvolvimento na perspectiva do eu coletivo nas praias de Batoque e Canto Verde - Ceará - Brasil

Abstract

Development in the human perspective takes into account the network of belonging in which the individual is inserted, formed by different instruments or objects, that depend on each other to reach their own reason for being. It should be embedded in the social improvements and freedoms enjoyed by society as a whole, reflecting the quality of life of individuals and their well-being. This study searches for new paradigms centered on the concept of local development that complements the notion of the collective self. In order to do so, it feeds on local reality, participation, cooperation of the subjects, public and private institutions, the implementation of public policies, as well as economic and environmental factors. In Community Tourism, the community development process works in a cooperative and shared manner. The Rapid Participatory Diagnosis allows to point out the potentialities and vulnerabilities presented by communities that carry out community-based tourism activities. The present work has as center the analysis of the community tourism practiced in the Tucum Network with the use of DRP. Despite the conflicts and difficulties encountered in the community, tourists and researchers are attracted to Prainha do Canto Verde and Batoque for the history of struggle and resistance to real estate speculation that has been taking place for more than thirty years. This work therefore defends the importance of solidarity and solidarity economy in tourism and does not seek to counteract existing practices, but is concerned with revealing its limitations and showing that there are alternatives.