Processos socioculturais do turismo na localidade receptora: o olhar de residentes sobre os visitantes na Ilha da Pintada Porto Alegre/RS

Abstract

This dissertation presents a study about the social and cultural process of tourism in an island called Ilha da Pintada (Porto Alegre/RS/Brazil). Contrary to what the word island could suggest, this is not an isolated place, but a borough of Rio Grande do Sul s capital, Porto Alegre. Tourism appears as a transformation agent in the community, which receives tourists on Sundays to have a traditional dish made of fish for lunch (peixe na taquara). Besides that, since the 70´s many seasonal residences were built on the island and around its area. This touristic flow, understood respectively as day tourist and second home tourists, is analyzed from the point of view of the Ilha da Pintada´s inhabitants. In other words, this study airs the residents point of view about the tourists. This study uses the ethnographic method to collect data and also photography. In order to understand the social and cultural process of tourism in host communities, a theoretical review about the theme was made. The understanding of popular-traditional culture was based on García Canclini´s studies and his concept of ´hybrid cultures`. This work identifies, through the residents´ narratives, the transformations that modernization brought to the place, such as urban development and changes in the work dimension that coexist with traditional activities such as fishing and handmade products, the latter having a significant increase in its production. The work relates those facts with tourism, understanding this phenomenon as an integrate part of the modern world transformations, and not as an isolated process.