Uso público em parques estaduais do Rio de Janeiro: perspectivas e desafios para a prestação de serviços de apoio à visitação

Abstract

The visitation in protected areas suggests a complex debate about different views and management planning of these areas. Partnerships for the provision of visitor support services have an important function in the planning, implementation and management of public use in protected areas. In this study, the eleven state parks of Rio de Janeiro were studied in order to identify and evaluate the current scenario of providing visitor support services, seeking to understand and analyze the possibilities of increasing public use management through partnerships between public and private spheres, and identifying the gaps and obstacles involved. Information about the number of informal tourist service providers was collected from all parks and it was found the absence of legal procedures and regulation of services offered by private. The potential of partnerships in four parks has also been surveyed and analyzed and a qualitative research has been carried out with managers of five parks to identify the main challenges, perspectives and principles that should guide the public-private partnerships in the parks. Through these analyzes, the information collected with managers, empirical experiments and bibliographic analysis, this research presents subsidies and a set of principles and guidelines for the planning and management of service provision to support the visitation in state parks, believing that these partnerships can work as an alternative to strengthen the socioeconomic insertion of local enterprises, the generation of revenues and the increase of the visitation in state parks of Rio de Janeiro