O PAPEL DOS AGENTES DO TURISMO A PARTIR DO MAPA DO TURISMO BRASILEIRO EM MARABÁ-PA

Abstract

This work has as the main goal, to identify and analyze the performance of agents producers of tourism in Marabá as well as how these agents reproduce politically and spatially the criteria of the Brazilian Tourism Map Program. The role that Marabá, as a medium city, plays in the South and Southeast of Pará guided this research. Together with the interest by regional analysis of how public tourism policies operate - or not - in a region. It starts with a methodology that considers Maraba’s historical-regional contradictions, as well as the economic-regional strength that implies in decisions for tourism in the city. For this, a brief review of the literature on public and city policies was necessary. The use of direct observation of tourism agents' meetings and interviews composes the methodological procedures. It is stated that the fact of Marabá being the main economic town in the South and Southeast regions of Pará influences considerably the organization and political decisions on tourism beyond its administrative limits through the actions of tourism agents, considered as decision-makers in the decision-making of the PMTB criteria.

Keywords:​ Agents of tourism. PMTB. Tourism. Public Policies. Marabá.