O desenvolvimento sustentável de territórios turísticos sob a perspectiva do conceito de agenciamento

Abstract

The regionalization of tourism, adopted by the Ministry of Tourism as the activity’s development national policy, presents operational guidelines to direct its implementation. The present work has as its main goal to analyze aspects of the sustainability of touristic territories, inside those Tourism Regionalization Program operational steps, from the perspective of the concept of arrangement. First, it is presented an alignment of the sustainability subject and the concept of arrangement, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. This lining up initial step allows the identification of procedural, problematizational and technical aspects as potential criteria for analysis in the Regionalization Program’s documents. Those documents consist of nine operational modules and one conceptual material about sustainability. In that sense, methodologically speaking, the research can be classified as applied regarding its purpose and exploratory regarding its objectives. The data used are secondary and were collected through literature and document search. The data analysis techniques are predominantly qualitative, focusing on content analysis and its thematic and enunciation techniques. The results of this reasearch show, on one hand, that the regionalization of tourism is a promising proposal when it suggests grouping similar territories as a way of encouraging municipalities to achieve greater success in tourism. On the other hand, however, it implies that the application of this process in the manner suggested by the Ministry of Tourism, through the operational modules of Regionalization Program, lacks maturity with regard mainly to the adoption of innovative and creative planning and management techniques which, considering the different realities of the national territory, can stimulate the power of action of the territories.