CULTURA E NATUREZA: DESENVOLVIMENTO COMUNITÁRIO NA ILHA DO MEL, PARANÁ

Abstract

Tourism is an activity that promotes the displacement of people, who seek to know new places and get new experience, a relentless search for pleasure. Thus, it can be said that tourism is an important factor in development of local communities, and contributing to local development, which can be understood as the search for the particular community quality of life, and individuals to make up for effective participation in the whole process. As the object of study addressed to Honey Island, a major tourist attraction in the state of Parana, which is located two protected areas, which are no restrictive administrative policies to maintain environmental preservation concomitant to cultural interactions promoted by tourism. Thus, it is presented as a general objective of this research to analyze the impact of legal restrictions and filed intercultural interactions community development of Ilha do Mel, PR. It is proposed to carry out the survey of the main legal limitations filed to community development of Ilha do Mel. It sought to analyze the cultural impacts on Honey Island community through tourism, in view of transformation and cultural resistance. And it was also necessary to study the relationship between the community with the Conservation Units. The methodology of qualitative approach, whose research instruments were individual and group interviews, participant observation and document research based on administrative guidelines. It is concluded that the impact of legal restrictions and intercultural interactions in community development of Ilha do Mel, PR, partly result from factors unrelated to local communities and subsequently raise endogenous irreversible transformations. These changes cause environmental conflicts that, at certain times, limited communities in preserving their traditional way of life.