Cave Tourism potential of the Pião Circuit caves, State Park of Ibitipoca (MG, Brazil)

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Bruno Diniz
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Fonseca Filho, Ricardo Eustáquio, Lobo, Heros Augusto Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Ecoturismo
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/ecoturismo/article/view/10215
• topic: Cave tourism; Show Caves; Natural Protected Areas; Park; Heritage Conservation; Espeleoturismo; Cavernas; Unidades de Conservação; Parque; Conservação do Patrimônio

The Ibitipoca State Park (MG, Brazil) is known for its waterfalls and streams with peculiar coloring, as well as several tourist caves and a speleological potential to be explored. In this context, it is necessary to assess the speleotourist potential of its show caves, in order to analyze their conservation. The research carried out evaluated the speleotourist potential of the caves of the Pião Circuit (Monjolinho, Viajantes and Pião), considering their intrinsic weaknesses and possibilities for tourist use. Thus, it was possible to identify the conditioning and limiting factors to tourist visitation in these caves, presenting results that can contribute to the management of the park. The interpretation of the results suggests the review on the Pião cave, the limitation of the public use of the Monjolinho cave and has a high speleotouristic potential for the Travelers' Cave, which, even so, needs management interventions that contribute to the ordering of tourist visitation. The interpretation of the results suggests a revision of the possibility of visiting the Pião cave, the limitation of the public use of the Monjolinho cave and has a high speleotourist potential for the Viajantes cave, which requires management interventions that contribute to the organization of the tourist visitation.