Intercultural and educational challenges for sustainable tourism

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Domira Fernandes de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Ramos, Maria da Conceição Pereira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Cenário
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistacenario/article/view/18405
• topic: Educação. Turismo. Interculturalidade. Sustentabilidade.; Feducation, tourism, intercultural, sustainability.

This article aims to reflect on intercultural and educational challenges for sustainable tourism that fosters the integration of educational and inclusive practices promoted when human relationships become harmonious and cooperative. Intercultural implies relationship, dialogue and communication between different cultures, across individuals and cultures possess these groups, which meet and interact with individuals, groups and institutions from different universes. Also involves an exchange between different areas of knowledge whose interdisciplinary looks to be able to lead organizations to develop proposals aimed at education inclusion, seeking concepts interact intercultural, intercultural education and sustainable tourism. Therefore there is a lack in researches that seek to make a relation between education and sustainable tourism, the reason of this study, in which we performed a bibliographic research in Visconde de Cairu Foundation and Porto University Libraries. Dialogue is important these relationships from the perspective of interdisciplinarity and sustainability, making the tourism industry is generating positive effects on local populations and economies, environmental protection, preservation of culture and tradition and the rational use of natural resources. These theoretical considerations point to the need for communication between different cultures, especially in education and tourism, with emphasis on interculturalism, in light of the literature on the subject, in view of a more equitable and sustainable society.