Covid-19 e turismo: relações entre a pandemia e o fluxo aéreo no Brasil em 2020

Abstract

Addressing the themes of Tourism and Health, this paper analyzes relationships between the Covid-19 pandemic and tourism in Brazil based on the prevalence of cases of the disease and the number of arrivals of domestic travelers at the country's airports. The research is exploratory, based on a qualitative-quantitative approach. Bibliographic and documentary research was used to gather secondary data that enabled visual analysis of maps from IBGE on population data, from the Ministry of Tourism on the Tourism Map and from Fiocruz on the dispersion of Covid-19 in Brazilian municipalities, as well as graphs produced with Power BI software using data from ANAC and the Ministry of Health. As a result, the research indicates that the arrival of travelers in a location would not be the cause of the spread of Covid-19, but rather the combination of several factors (actions by government officials, engagement of the population, proximity of municipalities and large movement of people from one municipality to another) that could interfere in the evolution of the pandemic in a certain location. Finally, the study proposes that more research be done on the subjects of air transport and pandemics in order to broaden the discussion on the subject and mitigate the negative impact that a pandemic disease can have on the most diverse sectors of society, including tourism. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]