Hospitality without sacrifice? The case of receptive tourism

• Autor(a) principal: Camargo, Luiz Octávio de Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Hospitalidade
• Texto Completo: https://www.revhosp.org/hospitalidade/article/view/190
• topic: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas; Turismo; Hospitalidade;; hospitalidade; dom; turismo; receptivo turístico;; hospitality; gift; receptive tourism

The current article aims to evidence the virtualities of the gift that subsist in the commercial system, especially in the receptive tourism, considering tourism as a product of the overlapping of these two systems of exchange: the commercial and the gift; the first one, more recent and socially visible prevailed for the written laws of the commerce and the defense of the consumer; the second one ancestral and more difficult of being reached by the empirical observation prevailed by the non-written laws of the gift. Our observation will be guided for what happens beyond the combined exchange, beyond the monetary value of a rendered service, for what people and spaces give beyond the established contract. Many local communities see the tourists as “invaders” of their area, producing a kind of resistance during the act of receiving; therefore, there is no hospitality without sacrifice, but is primordial to understand the tourist load not as the volume of visitors that a place may receive, but as a space and a life which live in it, accepting that tourism planning is, actually, the planning of the hospitality that a territory can and wants to provide.