The geographical distribution of public investments in tourism in Brazil from 2003 to 2018

• Autor(a) principal: Todesco, Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Shirlayne Silva Adelino, Isadora
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Cenário
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistacenario/article/view/35012
• topic: Programas e Projetos de Turismo; Investimentos Públicos em Turismo; Ministério do Turismo.; Programas y Proyectos Turísticos; Inversiones Públicas en Turismo; Ministro de Turismo.; Tourism Programs and Projects; Public Investments in Tourism; Ministry of Tourism.

Public investments in tourism play an important role in the development of destinations, as, in theory, they are generally aimed at improving urban infrastructure, promoting tourism, qualifying services, supporting the marketing of products, and managing and planning tourism. In Brazil, the main official tourism body, the Ministry of Tourism, from 2003 to 2018, invested an amount in excess of R$ 17 billion. Considering the relevance of public investments for the development of tourism, the research aimed to reveal the geographical distribution and the profile of the resources applied by the Ministry of Tourism, in the period from 2003 to 2018. The methodology of this study is characterized as a descriptive and quantitative, since it is based mainly on the survey and analysis of budget execution in tourism carried out by the Brazilian federal government, having as its main source of information the Union's Budget Execution Reports. Such reports allow to filter the resources executed by agency, program, project and locality. In this way, the obtained data allowed to visualize the geographic distribution of public investments in tourism in Brazil, revealing the regions of the country that concentrate the resources and the neglected regions, according to the investment areas. Regarding the investment profile, it is concluded that the Basic and Tourism Infrastructure area concentrated 68.2% of the total resources applied by MTur. The second area of ”‹”‹greatest investment is Tourism Promotion (18.4%), and the least privileged areas are Management and Planning (3.7%), Qualification of Services (2.2%), Product Marketing (0, 8%) and Studies and Information Systems (0.4%). The Northeast was the region that concentrated public investments in tourism over 17 years, representing 20.4% of the total invested, with emphasis on the states of Ceará, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Bahia and Alagoas. The Southeast region captured 8.6%, with emphasis on the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. The states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo did not show significant investment compared to MG and SP. The South region covered 4.8% of investments. The states of the Midwest and North regions are the most neglected in relation to public investments in tourism, covering 3.8% and 3.5% of resources respectively over the 17 years of activity of the Ministry of Tourism. Due to the lack of detail in the Union's Budget Execution Reports, it was not possible to identify the destination of 59% of the resources applied by the MTur, demonstrating the lack of transparency in public spending in Brazil.