Relações entre Estruturas Formais de Investigação em Turismo (EFIT) e as Políticas Públicas de Turismo (PPTUR) em nível federal no Brasil: entre a expansão, consolidação e ... convergência?

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how the Formal Tourism Investigation Structures (EFIT) (forms of organized collective action) dialogue with the topics of the national agenda of Public Tourism Policies (PPTur). The fundamental idea is that since the Welfare State crisis, the State lost its capacity to attend to all social problems, appealing to civil society and the market in order to face the complex task of governing, which allows society to participate in any stage of the public policy cycle. The premise here is that citizens does not have the information or skills needed for the creation of appropriate policies that benefit society, including the tourist sector. Therefore, a higher intervention of specialists in the area of tourism is required to design policies, so that they can be found at the EFIT. Collective action is often associated with activities performed by formal organizations. The Formal Structures of Tourism Research are a type of formal organization and consequently a type of collective action. They collect data and information based on technical and scientific knowledge which is subsequently made available to decision makers. The use of this information could contribute significantly to the development of the tourism, facilitating the decision-making and implementation of solutions adapted to the needs of the sector. Thus, the research groups in tourism (EFIT) in Brazil were analyzed and, through a quantitative and qualitative analysis their degree of performance in public tourism policy was identified. Subsequently, the Public Policies in National Tourism were collected and based on a content analysis its relationship with the EFIT was detected. The results obtained show that there is no participation of tourism research groups (EFIT) in Brazil in the design of national tourism public policies which suggests a convergence between such structures and policies. It is proposed to balance the participation of the State, citizens and tourism specialists in the public policy cycle through the incorporation of the Formal Structures of Tourism Research into the process.