Política de regionalização de turismo no interior potiguar: articulação, entraves e efetividade

Abstract

The global political context features a movement in search to decentralize the power State decision-making to lower instances of governance in order to further strengthen democratic links and the governmental actions with legitimacy, efficiency and cooperation. In Brazil this tendency was advocated by the Federal Constitution of 1988, foreseeing that decentralization as a premise to the public policies formulation. Therefore, the Ministério do Turismo (Mtur) in 2003 at develop the policy to the sector creates the Programa de Regionalização do Turismo (PRT), exactly in view of promoting the organization of regional councils of the tourist activity to accord peculiarities of the territory as well as to afford the cooperative and synergistic efforts among the private sector, civil society and government, having as one of its objectives the interiorization of the brazilian tourism. This work analyzes repercussions of the PRT in midlands of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) having as spatial area the tourist regions: Agreste/ Trairi and Seridó, both located within midlands. The research has as objective to examine the level of effectiveness of PRT to unleash the process of internalizing of tourism in RN. This research has qualitative character, the primary data collection used has been the interview. The secondary data collection was performed by Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) datas, minutes of the regional councils; Mtur database, among other documents. It was used the Excel software to aid in compiling the secondary datas. The main conclusions are that the actions developed by the PRT is run-off and disconnected as a larger context, in other words, there is no collective and contributor understanding. This work also reveals the fragile condition of the tourism departments in midlands of RN in relation to human resources and legislative administrative. In general the PRT did not contribute substantially to the development of tourism in midlands of RN, largely by ideological, functional and executive dissonances linked to the program.