Tourism and traditional communities: territorial perspectives in the Quilombola Community of Cumbe / CE
Traditional territory; Traditional community; Deterritorialization; Tourist impacts
Due to urban-industrial pressures that affect the traditional communities and the tourist inclination of these territories, this research sought to understand the relationship of tourism with the territorial processes of a traditional communities. Initially, the purpose is understand the desterritorialization resulting from modernization and the influence of tourism in this process. For this purpose, three fieldworks and interviews were carried out in the Comunidade Quilombola do Cumbe, in the municipality of Aracati/CE. It was observed that the findings of impacts arising from tourism activity are the result of the commercialization of the practice and its inclusion in the capitalist mode of production. Thus, aiming exclusively at the accumulation of capital, it neglects social development and intensifies the deterritorializing processes unleashed in the community by large enterprises through the exclusion and territorial deprivation of the traditional people investigated. Thus, deterritorialization is one of the main problems in the community, so the expectations and demands that base the region's community tourism are based on the resistance and defense of the biophysical environment. The tourist activity becomes, therefore, an attenuating instrument of the processes of deprivation, exclusion and territorial precarization. The information obtained demonstrates the importance of community action in relation to the projects installed in the traditional territories, with community protagonism as a means of enabling the maintenance of subsistence and ancestral environmental systems.