Sustainable Development. Tourism. Indicators. SISDTus. Protect Areas.
The tourism plays an important role in the socioeconomic development of several localities. However, given its power of impact, positive and negative, it is essential to know this phenomenon and seek ways to make it more sustainable, so that several tools have been created to measure the level of sustainability of sites and phenomena, especially in this study, for sustainability indicators. In view of the above, the present study has as objectives (1) to understand how sustainability indicators have been used to evaluate tourism activity in conservation units in Brazil; and (2) analyze the sustainability of tourism activity in the State District of Fernando de Noronha through the System of Sustainability Indicators of Tourism Development (SISDTur). To achieve these objectives, the dissertation was structured in two chapters. The first, he talked about the systems of sustainability indicators in the context of tourism and its relationship with the Conservation Units, and the second addresses the theme of tourism sustainability in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago. The first chapter made use of a Methodology of Bibliographic Review, through the analysis of scientific publications in articles that were collected through the Capes and Google Scholar's Periodic Platforms, using a time frame from 2000 to 2021, and the keywords "Sustainability indicators", "Tourism", "conservation units" and "Brazil". Twenty-six articles were considered, demonstrating the emphasis of the use of Pressure-State-Response (PER) systems, The Tourism Development Sustainability Indicator System (SISDTur) and the models that studied the sustainability of ecotourism in Conservation Units. In the second chapter, a multi-methods approach methodology was used, through the application of SISDTur, with the appropriate adaptation to suit the context of Fernando de Noronha. The study had 75 indicators, distributed in 6 dimensions: environmental, cultural, social, economic, tourist and institutional. Primary data collection was used through the application of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with representatives of the public authorities, civil society and private initiative, through face-to-face and virtual means, as well as access to public domain data. Each indicator was classified as "unsustainable", "partially sustainable" and "sustainable". The data were analyzed through the Software SPSS and Excel, based on averages, fashions and coefficients of variation, which allowed the construction of graphs and tables, allowing to observe the context of the sustainability of tourism on site, so that the indicators were classified, mostly as sustainable or partially sustainable, demanding actions aimed at improving this framework, this is a fragile environment, considering that it is an island environment that has an increasing number of inhabitants and tourists over the years.