Regi o, desenvolvimento regional e turismo comunitário

In this study, region, regional development and communities are rethought by examining issues of sympathy and social resistance in relations with tourism and territories. We seek to understand the importance of tourism in regional and local development, its contribution to employment generation and social praxis in touristic regions and tourism centers in these areas from the approximation of micro-territories here called communities. In the article interests is shown in regional realities by means of regional development that values local policies in a globalized world. Possibilities for tourism communities are thought that, while resisting the hegemonic model, can offer development alternatives. We take into account local specificities in the planning process, hence we chose not to adopt an already existing model, preconceived, which means that tourism can be adequate for a place and not for another. Many regional problems wait for solutions. The accelerated reduction of labor, in the form of unemployment and exclusion, points to a new proposal of regional development (as advocated in this study), which calls for reducing regional disparities and options of participatory practices, and democratic mechanisms for the articulation of social subjects, prioritizing small regional scales.