Desvendando o turismo em Barra do Piraí: um estudo sobre o turismo rural e sua relação com o desenvolvimento local

Abstract

The study aims to diagnose the role of related rural tourism enterprises, in addition to analyzing how the tourism in rural areas has influenced the development of Barra do Pirai and vicinit. Thus, the motivational factor of this work is the research on the role of tourism in rural areas development in the municipality Barra do Pirai, located in South Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro, in the region known touristic as Vale do Café. The Vale do Café region consists of 13 municipalities according to the map of the Regionalization Program of Tourism (PRT) headed by the Ministry of Tourism in 2003. According to the document the region is composed of the municipalities: Barra do Pirai, Barra Mansa, Engenheiro Paulo de Frontim, Mendes, Miguel Pereira, Paracambi, Paty dos Alferes, Pinheiral, Piraí, Rio das Flores, Valença, Vassouras e Volta Redonda. The great tourism potential of the region is characterized regional history through historical and pedagogical tourism, and other activities in rural areas. This worked as adopted methodology, field research (semi-structured interviews, questionnaires), documentary and bibliographic research. The datas from the interviews and questionnaires were analyzed and crossed through some verifiers, such as: labor market, degree of domestic production, connectivity between agents listed in the tourism sector, relationship between the public sector and the private, tourism as a source of income for establishments tourist and influence of tourism in Barra do Piraí. In this context, it is noteworthy that despite the potential of the municipality of Barra do Pirai, with its farms and other historical buildings, hotels farms, among other tourist developments, the industry has not influenced efficiently local developing.