Arumă : criatividade, tecnologia e turismo: touceiras dos saberes e fazeres amazônicos como potencializadoras dos ecossistemas turisticos

Abstract

The present thesis focuses on the study of: creativity and technology as devices for recognizing and valuing knowledge and practices, which empower individuals, places, and tourist ecosystems in the Amazonas. In this sense, the general objective is to propose the relationship between creativity and technology as devices for recognizing and valuing knowledge and practices, empowering individuals, places, and tourist ecosystems in the Amazonas. Thus, the specific objectives were established as follows: to discuss the concept of creativity; to discuss the concept of technology; to characterize Amazonian knowledge and practices; to characterize individuals, places, and tourist ecosystems in the Amazonas; and to map projects related to creativity and technology that demonstrate the potential of individuals, places, and tourist ecosystems in the Amazonas. In theoretical terms, the assumptions of this thesis are aligned with its research objectives and ethical principles and were developed based on the scientific assumptions of complex and ecosystemic science, considering its processual, plural, and ever-moving dimension. In terms of Tourism, these guidelines align with the studies of Moesch (2002), Beni and Moesch (2017), and Baptista (2020; 2021; 2023). The methodological strategies used were two complex, processual, and plurimethodological strategies, called: ?Cartography of Knowledge? and ?Rhizomatic Matrices? (Baptista, 2021). The investigative trails in process for the research are: The Web of "Entwined Us" of Research; Personal Knowledge or Subjective Dimension; Theoretical Knowledge or Theoretical-Conceptual-Bibliographical Web; Production Plant or Web of Practices; and Intuitive Dimension of Research, enabling the combination of investigative approaches and actions with multiple procedures, in coherence with the specific objectives. Investigative actions are complemented by displacements in the capital and in some municipalities of Amazonas to participate in events, meetings, fairs, courses, and other activities that enabled the obtaining of information and, at the same time, due to its processual logic, contributed to rethinking the empowerment and re-signification of tourist individuals and places. Thus, the results are reports of investigative approaches, in cartographies of projects and ecosystems, involving the thesis theme. The thesis contributes by presenting a cartography of the subjects, places and tourist ecosystems of Amazonas, highlighting how creativity and technology enhance local knowledge and practices, expanding the debate on tourism, sustainability and regional development from an Amazonian and relational perspective. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]