Os desafios metodológicos para uma abordagem científica do turismo: o inventário turístico

Abstract

Research on the inventory process of tourism supply, focusing on the Ministry of Tourism pilot project developed in the cities located in Rio Grande do Sul in the years of 2005 and 2006, supported by professors and students of superior courses of Tourism. It aims to analyze the effectiveness of the inventory methodology, pointing methods that allow its understanding as a dynamic instrument, able to subsidize the Tourism sustainable planning. Based on Historical-Structural Dialectic, the study was carried through by means of: analyzing the tourism supply inventory model; comprehending the analysis categories of the tourist phenomenon through the complexity of its Inter-relations; and verifying the subject researchers position. The research tools used were: the half-structuralized interview, the participant observation and the content analysis. The results discourse on the aspects of the tourist knowledge production, the contradictions in relation to the advances in the Tourism conception as a complex social phenomenon and the parameters adopted in the tourism supply inventory. The conclusion was that being the tourism supply inventory methodology fragmented, reduced, non-historical and mechanist, as well as following a positivist logic, does not reach the Tourism complex phenomenon. Therefore, the pilot project participants vision shows process fragility, and lack of compromise and connectivity among research, projects and the National Politics of Tourism. Thus, there was not any construction of effective and broad scientific data, making the database for Tourism planning fragile and partial.