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Política de ordenamento do espaço para o turismo e segregação social na praia de Jacumã (PB)

2013; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

1677-6976

Adjane Araújo Machado, Maristela Oliveira de Andrade,

Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research

This paper aims to analyze a politics of coastal area planning to the tourism development, through adoption of law that allow charging of tourism fee for beaches access. Law 575/2009 was established in 2009, in municipality of Conde, Southern Coast of Paraiba, that aims to discipline excursions activities in this area, however, its application resulted in the excursions of “farofeiros”, social groups who have low acquisitive power and who traditionally frequent the Jacuma beach, belong to municipality of Conde. Controversy emerged around this law, motivating the interest of this research, in order to gather informations about public management for the tourism in the region and socio-spatial changes that occur because of charging of tourism fee. Through a comparative analysis of the interview of public managers, tourism entrepreneurs, local traders, local people and vacationers of the Jacuma beach, findings of the study indicate that the law was considered a strategy to privatize the beach, disrespecting democratic rules of the right to make use of the beach as public area. Accordingly, law took effect as a form of environmental racism and the segregation of the beach area with the exclusion of significant part of citizen.