Folkcomunicação e turismo : as cambindas velhas de Pesqueira-PE e a atividade turística de base local

Abstract

In general scope, this study had as objective to analyze the folkcomunicational process as articulator element for the local development from the tourism in the city Pesqueira, Pernambuco’s Wasteland. Specifically, it wanted to understand the meaning, dynamics and the importance of the tourism as strategy of local development for this City, to study how is the folkcomunicational process between the tourist activity and the cultural manifestation Cambindas Velhas, to identify its relation with the local community and to describe how the cultural and tourist politics in Pesqueira enclose the tourism and the manifestation, object of this research. The methodology is based in the inductive research through the method of scientific induction. It was developed from the qualitative referential, with the elaboration of an ethnography, which instruments of data’s collection was the iconographic investigation, semi-structured interview, unsystematic observation, daily’s field research, history and verbal, and as for the history surveying of the origin of the Cambindas Velhas, about the informants, the data’s collection happened like a founder legend that happens again in the memory of the group and so it has passed away one century. When uniting the data collected in field to the theoretical support elaborated through bibliographical and documentary research, it was obtained as resulted a reality that also points the endogenous potential of the city of Pesqueira, that concretizes not only in a good offers tourist, but in a community that shows itself receptive to this activity. Finally, the study comes to the conclusion that in spite of the latent potential of Pesqueira for the development of the tourism of local base, there are problems that constitute a great obstacle to this development, like the way to managing the city in the perspective of the tourism of local base, the image created around the Cambindas Velhas, the process communicational used by the administration in effect does not include the plenitude of the popular participation, unquestionably one of the bases of the local development, the lack of auto-recognition of the community and its manifestations. In such a manner, the present research concludes that the use of the folkcomunicational process through the action of folkmarketing, not only for the external public, but, first of all for the internal public, can be constituted in a basic tool in the process of tourist of local base management favoring the specificities of the local culture, promoting the inclusion of the community that this one feels itself as a part of process and has its consequent participation.