Medeiros, Carlos Alberto FreireSilva, Katiane Xavier da2016-07-182016-07-182015-08-31SILVA, Katiane Xavier da. Gestão de inovação e turismo em Centros de Convenções: análise dos Centros de Convenções de Natal e de Fortaleza. 2015. 71f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Turismo) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2015.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/20967Management and innovation are two words that come together in the organizational context for the success of firms. Innovation has become an essential component for tourism and convention centers. Considering the impact of the meetings centers in the tourism sector and constant innovation as a competitive advantage strategy of the last decade, this study used the innovation management as a key to changing challenge in the center of Natal conventions. Factors in innovation management for meetings centers were investigated by means of information in organizational and technological structure of the equipment such as the state of the art innovation. The main aspects of innovation management reflecting in the meetings industry of construction is the ability to create and change to the conference and convention centers. It is a descriptive exploratory qualitative research with case study method, which relate to innovation management and tourism to Natal and Fortaleza conventions centers. The results show that there is still no at convention center of Natal , a satisfactory innovation management level, for the planning, leadership, skills, strategies and implementations for innovative processes in our times are absent.Acesso AbertoGestão de inovaçãoTurismoCentros de Conferências e ConvençõesmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::TURISMO