Turismo de Natureza ou na Natureza ou Ecoturismo? Reflexões e contribuições sobre um tema em constante debate

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Patrícia Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Silva, Charlei Aparecido da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Turismo em Análise
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rta/article/view/157887
• topic: Nature tourism; Segment; Pragmatism of application; Hierarchization; Ecotourism; Turismo de naturaleza; Segmento; Pragmatismo de aplicación; Jerarquización; Turismo de natureza; Segmento; Pragmatismo de aplicação; Hierarquização; Ecoturismo

This paper aims to broaden the understanding on the term “Turismo de natureza” (Nature Tourism), which has been used in different ways and verify the hypothesis that it comes from the concept in English of “nature-based tourism”. From this perspective, to better understand this concept, we made a bibliographic review that could introduce and conceptualize this incipient topic. We concluded that the term “Nature Tourism” is actually used from the same perspective by Brazilian, Spanish, Portuguese and Cuban authors, that is, the perspective of “nature-based tourism”. Thus, based on the reading and interpretation of the bibliographic background, we discussed concepts of Nature Tourism, nature-based tourism, as well as the inclusion of ecotourism into such perspectives. We believe thinking, reflecting and proposing discussions on touristic segments is the role of tourism courses. Considering the existence of many questions, enquiries and especially practices that contradict conceptual references, we present a different perspective on the concept of Nature Tourism.