Uma leitura geográfica da "vocação turistica" de São José de Ribamar/MA

Abstract

This work addresses how the construction and consolidation of the tourist vocation in São José de Ribamar/MA takes place, highlighting its spatial developments and the current scenario, mainly regarding coastal ecological tourism and religious tourism practiced in the municipality. Cultural- Humanist Geography, with the phenomenological method, and the interpretation of questionnaires, interviews, newspaper reports and photographs made it possible to denaturalize the notion of tourist vocation. The focus of the study falls on the category of landscape, understood as a human environment of transformations and diverse perceptions. The relationship between Geography and Tourism and its spatial implications are treated in order to emphasize the different agents, sectors, scales and dynamics involved. It is expected to contribute to the discussion already discussed regarding the relevance of São José de Ribamar in the tourist scenario and to collaborate with the geographical reading of the landscape that considers the different tourist motivations