Sistemas de avaliação e produto turístico: um estudo exploratório-descritivo nas operadoras turísticas do município de Porto Alegre

Abstract

The objective of this work consists in diagnosing the contribution of the quality systems in tour operators in the production and distribution of tourist products in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. A the identification of quality systems and its categories and subcategories of analysis, will be made to verify the relationship between tourist products development and its quality systems. For that, initially it was made a theoretical revision in quality, planning and service s management to survey necessary data to identify marketing and corporate variable. Afterwards, a field research identify the quality control system used by tour operators in Porto Alegre.The study is divided in seven chapters concerning: a) strategy and planning; b) quality, its concept, relation to services and tourism; and c) development and monitoration, tourist product process description of development, assessment and its quality indicators. It is understood that tour operator s quality systems must be focused on quality concepts in adequacyto the use since the project to satisfy: a) the final and internal consumer; b) internal routines and the standardization of some processes of the service; and c) to the flexible organizacional culture and the clear and accessible internal communication to the whole organization. All these elements directed to the criteria of quality previously defined can determine the reduction of the difference between the acquisition of the expected product/service and the obtained one.From the results it was identified that the agreement on quality is superior to the actions of control and lining up process in the development and distribution of the tourist product elaborated by the operators of Porto Alegre. A possibility of interpretation of this result is that the behavior of the reality it was not being represented adequately for the mechanisms of quality control used by the studied tourist operators. Another interpretation mentions optimistical analysis to it of the managers in the evaluation of the result of its efforts in direction of the construction of the offered product quality. One concluded, therefore, that "what it is perceived is bigger of the one than what it is carried through".