Turismo cultural sustentável no município de Sabará: Sabará além da jabuticaba

Abstract

Sustainable cultural tourism is a multifaceted concept, which should be understood mainly as a contribution to the protection, preservation and communication of the exceptional universal value of World Heritage, as is the case of the municipality of Sabará, which has its origins in the early days of the colonization of Brazil and is deeply interconnected with the legend of the sabarabuçu (resplendent mountain range or mountain related to the legends of the silver mines). As the preservation of historic cities is essential to ensure the acquisition of knowledge, the identification of human adaptations to the environment and the production of traditional Brazilian knowledge, it is noted that tourism has the potential to act as a vehicle in this context and can contribute to the socioeconomic development of local communities. However, if it is not managed sustainably, the opposite effect occurs. With this in mind, the present study aims to analyze the importance of sustainable cultural tourism in the municipality of Sabará - Minas Gerais. To achieve the proposed objectives, a bibliographic research was carried out, followed by qualitative applied research, based on the Jabuticaba Festival. The main results pointed out that it is crucial to develop sustainable projects in tourist destinations, mainly due to their impact on socioeconomic development. In Sabará, sustainable tourism enhances the territorial enhancement and local culture, representing a concrete opportunity for growth, preservation of cultural and natural resources; limiting the negative impact of tourist flows on cultural sites and the environment; greater accessibility to tourism; initiation to development policies and virtuous processes of repopulation, intervening in the adaptation of the tourist proposal related to cultural itineraries.