Leisure, tourism, real estate speculation and territorial conflict between São Miguel do Gostoso and Touros (RN)

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Wagner Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Fonseca, Maria Aparecida Pontes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo
• Texto Completo: https://rbtur.org.br/rbtur/article/view/1587
• topic: Tourism Investments; Real estate market; Territorial Conflict; São Miguel do Gostoso.; Inversiones turísticas; Mercado inmobiliario; Conflicto Territorial; San Miguel do Gostoso.; Investimentos Turísticos; Mercado Imobiliário; Conflito Territorial; São Miguel do Gostoso.

The paper analyzes the relation between the territorial conflict involving the municipalities of Touros and São Miguel do Gostoso (RN) and tourist and real estate investments. This conflict occurred after the discovery of a mistake in the demarcation of the boundaries between the two municipalities, when São Miguel do Gostoso emerged as a tourist destination. The increase in such investments throughout the Northeast Region was due to the transfer of European funds in search of appreciation. In this study, the collection of data occurred through the consultation of documents, systematic observation, semi-structured interviews and survey of data from the registry. With the territorial domain questioned, it is verified that São Miguel do Gostoso started to accumulate budgetary burden due to the decrease of onlays and taxes related to the population count and the use of urban land. On the other hand, it assumed the responsibility of providing public services to residents and tourists. Investments became an incentive for urban expansion, mainly, Ponta do Santo Cristo, an area of greater dispute and expansion of real estate investments with a significant participation of foreigners. It is concluded that the investments occurred were decisive to trigger the litigation, for which, the termination of an agreement between the managers was conditioned to the maintenance of the lands of Ponta do Santo Cristo Beach for Touros.