Turismo rural: as percepções e alternativas para o projeto caminhos da conquista no município de Abelardo Luz - SC

Abstract

The challenges of the struggle for land, for rights and quality of life are recurrent in the history of Abelardo Luz - SC. The search for agrarian reform is driven by the beginning of the settlements in 1985, bringing with it more than 1400 families that today are settled in the municipality, in more than 20 settlements. These families seek dignity, break prejudices and seek quality of life, more recently through a new source of income, which could guarantee their permanence in the property. In the year 2015, this search led to the idea of building a tourist route, with exclusive visitation in lots of the settlements, and this initiative was unpublished in the state. The objective of this work is to analyze the perceptions of the families and other actors involved in the rural tourism project in the settlements of the municipality of Abelardo Luz - SC and discuss the points that did not allow the project success. For this, a qualitative research was carried out, developed through a case study. Interviews were conducted with the most diverse actors of the project, as well as bibliographic research and documentary consultation. As a result of this work we had the diagnosis of the perceptions of the actors, the understanding of why the project stopped and some possibilities of how to create conditions for its recovery are raised.