Article
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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oai:doaj.org/article:60e9788b17e04bb9b86371da129aa841>
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DOI: <
10.18089/DAMeJ.2017.30.4>
Abstract
As part of the recent 21st century discussions on patrimony and sustainability, this article aims at a theoretical and empirical discussion on the complexity of opening spaces. natural with local cultures for tourism. The case study submitted concerns a Brazilian protected area with religious management, called Santuário do Caraça. With a field methodology built with participating observation and semi-structured interviews, we will seek an understanding of the local values of the territory concerned, the change of space and tourism practices within the environmental history and the respective complexity of this process in the past and in the present. With this qualitative analysis, we aim to add to the debate that seeks to build links between history and tourism in the contemporary environmental context.