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Turismo sustentável e gestão ambiental em meios de hospedagem: o caso da Ilha do Mel, Paraná

2009; Volume: 3; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12660/oit.v3n4.5731

1980-6965

Rivanda Meira Teixeira, Matias Poli Sperb,

Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research

This research presents the environmental management practiced by the lodging sector in Ilha do Mel, located in the coast of the State of Paraná. The study presupposes that agents of the private sector that act in this place perceive the importance of the nature as the main tourist attractiveness, and in so far as possible, they look for to explore it in a maintainable way. More specifically, it searched for to verify which are the actions that the proprietors of lodgings develop with relation to the environmental administration, as well as their perceptions about their role and responsibility with the environmental sustainability in the place. As it is an exploratory and descriptive study, the data were collected mainly trough semi-structured personal interviews with the proprietors. It can be concluded that it doesn't exist in most of the entrepreneurs, the concern with the maintainable use of the natural resources and that the actions related to the use of those resources are not due to an collective environmental conscience.