Visitors conductors from Jamaraquá - FLONA do Tapajós, Belterra (PA, Brazil): socioeconomic, academic and professional characteristics

• Autor(a) principal: Cruz, Simone Lobato Ferreira da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Ecoturismo
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/ecoturismo/article/view/11859
• topic: Condutores de visitantes; Unidades de Conservação; Ecoturismo; Floresta Nacional do Tapajós; Comunidade de Jamaraquá; Ecotourism; Conservation Units; Tapajós National Forest; Jamaraquá Community; Visitors Conductors

The conduction of visitors in Conservation Units is of paramount importance for the development of sustainable tourism in these protected areas. This study is an exploratory research with a qualitative-quantitative approach and demonstrates the socioeconomic, academic and professional characteristics of the conductors of community visitors from Jamaraquá, located in the Tapajós National Forest, municipality of Belterra (PA, Brazil). Data was collected through a face-to-face interview that used 17 questionnaires with a model based on Cotes et al. (2018b), containing 20 questions, both open and closed, divided into two groups: I-Sociodemographic characteristics with 06 questions, and II- Academic and professional characteristics of the conductors, containing 14. The results include the majority of the conductors of visitors as being male, married or in a stable union, having elementary education, with less than ten years of experience in the area, and earning up to a minimum wage, pointing that their work is for the entertainment and education of tourists.