Previous analysis of socio-environmental feasibility in tourism concession planning in Brazilian National Parks

• Autor(a) principal: Septanil, Moema Pauline Barão
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Lucas Milani, Ranieri, Victor Eduardo Lima
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Ecoturismo
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/ecoturismo/article/view/15148
• topic: Estudo de Viabilidade; Viabilidade Ambiental; Viabilidade Social; Unidade de Conservação; Áreas Protegidas; Feasibility Study; Environmental Feasibility; Social Feasibility; Protected Areas

Tourism concessions in National Parks are implemented as a strategy to overcome deficiencies in human and financial resources that directly affect the tourism structure in these Protected Areas. This type of partnership has been gaining ground on the international and national scene, with a clear increase observed in Brazil in all spheres of PA management. At the federal level, ICMBio Normative Instruction nº 9, of July 13, 2018, disciplined rules for concessions implementation, one of which is related to the previous studies that need to be carried out before they are implemented. Among these studies, there is a need to carry out studies to ensure the socio-environmental viability of the activities and services proposed in the concession projects. Given that the normative instruction that guides the construction of these contracts mentions the concern with their environmental viability, the objective of this article was to analyze the inclusion of socio-environmental criteria in the previous feasibility studies of tourism concessions in Brazilian National Parks. This article analyzed 22 documents, referring to previous feasibility studies of tourism concession planning in 14 National Parks, and identified a gap in the presence of socio-environmental feasibility analysis in concession planning. No information was found regarding environmental feasibility studies of the activities, and only partial references to possible social impacts of the concessions were identified, in Financial and Economic Feasibility Studies, referring to the forecast of jobs that will be generated with the concession, and in selection processes for hiring a team to prepare Economic-Financial Feasibility Studies, where there is a request that the studies must include estimates of the social and economic benefits for the concession company or provide data about possible forms of tourism involving the local community. This study made it possible to identify a lack of alignment in the planning process of concessions in Brazilian National Parks with the guidelines given by IN nº 9 of July 13, 2018, and a gap in feasibility studies carried out regarding obtaining information to ensure the socio-environmental viability of tourism concession projects.