Estudo econômico-ecológico do Rio Araguaia pela demanda turística - Região de Aruanã

• Autor(a) principal: SANTOS, Manoel Eloy de Melo Oliveira dos
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000dx3b
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2550
• topic: Rio Araguaia; ecologia humana; turismo; percepção ecológica; socioeconômica; 1.Rio Araguaia 2.Ecologia humana 3.Valoração ambiental 4.Percepção ecológica 5.Demanda turística; Araguaia River; human ecology; tourism; ecological perception; socioeconomics; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA

The Araguaia River has became one of the greatest point to the ecological tourism in Goiás region, due to its natural beauties such as beaches throughout its margins. The unplanned tourism may cause negative consequences to natural resources, thus to know the profile of the tourist and their knowledge concerning to the whole environment is an important tool into the ecosystem conservation. The Araguaia River is a food plain river, and it has several cities alongside the river, such as Aruanã, considered the entrance to Araguaia Valley. As many as 65% of tourists in Aruanã are men with mean age of 36 years old and married, with a high education degree and coming from Goiás. The tourists usually remain 10 days in Araguaia River spending an average of US$ 61,7 per day. The Araguaia River is the main attractive to 45,3% and fishing is preferred activity to relax to 24,2% of these tourists. Despite the tourist activity be quite connected to the ecosystem, the ecological wisdom of tourists about vegetation and ecological cycles are low, and 30% of them consider that they do use any natural resources, compromising the integrity of the ecosystem by the bad utilization of environmental services of Araguaia River, in Aruanã region.