Tourism and local development: Analysis of environmental sustainability in porto seguro, bahia, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Tourism and local development: Analysis of environmental sustainability in porto seguro, bahia, Brazil
Received 20th December, 2017; Received in revised form; 16th January, 2018; Accepted 23rd February, 2018; Published online 30th March, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Araújo, W. A. de and Pires, M. de M. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective of this article is to analyze the environmental sustainability of the tourism in Bahia, Brazil, taking as reference the locality of Porto Seguro. The environmental aspect is inserted once the tourism developed in this destination is strongly associated with the natural landscape. For that, field survey was used and carried out from May 4 to 20, 2016, when 41 managers of the companies that operate in the hosting sector were interviewed. The research privileges two methodological cuts: a quantitative, called Locational Quotient (LQ) and an analytical cut, for the characterization of productive agglomerations in low and medium development regions, denominated Local Productive Arrangement (LPA). As a conclusion, the studied locality can be identified as LPA of tourism in consolidation phase. The results classify the LPA with Sustainable Locational Quotient (QLS) of Low Sustainability.
