Fonseca, Maria Aparecida Pontes daCosta, Hugo Aureliano da2018-07-042018-07-042018-03-28COSTA, Hugo Aureliano da. Turismo e Território-Rede: um estudo sobre o destino Natal/RN. 2018. 221f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Geografia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2018.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/25501Tourism generates a large amount of fixed and flows that reverberate in the space establishing diverse connections and spatial interactions, altering the form-content of the places through the territorializations of the agents that act in the tourist segment. Through public and private investments, this activity assumed great importance in terms of spatial and economic transformations in the city of Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte, in the context of the productive restructuring observed in the last phase of capitalism's expansion. Tourism redefined the participation of this municipality in the international division of labor and established the establishment of new networks between Natal and the global economic space, as well as in the intra-regional and local space. The objective of the present study is to analyze how the flow of tourists, the means of lodging and the workers of the tourist segment contributed to the constitution of new geographic networks in Natal, providing new interactions and spatial connections. The conceptual binomial of territory-network (HAESBAERT, 2006; FRATUCCI, 2008) will support the study. The research procedures involved the collection of data in various organs and governmental institutions on the origin and evolution of the means of lodging; information was obtained on tourist flows; as well as seizing the origin of the capital of lodging facilities and networks / groups of the lodging sector operating in Natal. We also conducted interviews with companies in the lodging sector that are part of hotel chains to obtain data related to the dwelling places of the operational workers. Given the nature of the study, maps were prepared with the purpose of spatializing the fixed and identified flows. In addition to the external networks provided with the flows of tourists and capital (through the insertion of lodging facilities, in groups, in the natal urban fabric), this study shows the intra and interurban flow of Natal, identified through the movement of the workers of the lodging sector and of the tourists that move to visit the attractions in the tourist pole Costa das Dunas. In this way, it was demonstrated that, with the expansion of tourism, Natal starts to connect, based on zonal and reticular logics, with other places through the new networks established in global, regional and local spaces from the tourist activity - networks of people (workers and tourists) and of capital (means of lodging). The networks and groups of means of lodging are inserted, in Natal, mainly from the decade of 90, altering the form-content of this city and intentionally conceiving new logics, captained by this foreign capital and, even, by own own attraction of tourists to these countries. According to the information obtained, the tourists originate from the same countries that come from the means of lodging and still travel in Natal and in the Costa das Dunas Pole, in a reticular and seasonal way, using the territory selectively. Operational tourism workers, zonally linked to this activity, depend on this activity and are usually away from tourist areas, needing to travel daily to work. In this way, tourism influences, even, distant areas, even though there are no tourist attractions. Therefore, the use of the native territory by the tourism gains protagonism from the decade of the 80 to the present days and it changed the form-content of the capital potiguar and all its structure, permeating it of new fixes and flows of this activity.Acesso AbertoRedes geográficasTerritórioTurismoInterações espaciaisNatal/RNmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA