Portuguese and Brazilian Venice: growth and consumption of cities as tourism products

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Ramon Fortunato
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Sá, Frederico Amado de Moura e
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/rtd.v0i32.20462

This study exposes the dialogue between territorial urban planning issues in the cities of Paraty (BR) and Aveiro (PT) in terms of urban planning legislation and its interface with urban growth and tourism. Both cities anchor their tourist marketing in the peculiar image of the river and the boats, searching for references in Venice, an image that exposes them as unique tourist destinations in their respective countries. With the increase in tourism, the new urban demands and dynamics are beginning to mediate territorial conflicts that were not previously exposed, such as disorderly growth, congestion, environmental problems, real estate speculation and socio-spatial conflicts. After all, how does tourism affect urban planning? Seeking to answer this question, this study compares these two tourist destinations. Its objective is to find the territorial planning disparities when the urban dynamics caused by tourism and the tools of territorial urban planning overlap. The method used was the analysis of the most important legislation in force in each city, the qualitative examination of the urban spaces, the analysis in satellite images, and technical visits to the urban management bodies or exchange of e-mails.It was verified that the urban dynamics are intensified with the propulsion of tourism and are not followedand controlled by the legislation and urban master plans. As a consequence, urban problems and theirimpacts on urban space are deepened by increasing tourist demands.