Hostel: território de hospedagem marcado pela trama turístico-comunicacional

Abstract

This master’s thesis has the general aim of presenting signs of the hostel’s relations, as territory of lodging, with the tourist-communicational weave. In theoretical terms, it has a transdisciplinary approach, encompassing Tourism and Communication, in a complex-ecosystemic perspective. The methodological strategy used is the Cartografia de Saberes, proposed by Baptista (2014), involving a weave of ways to be covered for the research effectiveness: personal knowledge, theoretical knowledge, production, with approximations and investigative actions and research’s intuitive dimension. As an approximation, the personal knowledge comes up, with bibliographic search, conversation with the research group, approximatios with the field, informal conversations with owners and guests of hostels. The research also involved the processing of these visits to hostels and the production of 18 experience’s narratives. In addition, 47 interviews were done, systematized in accordance with the objectives. Based on the theoretical knowledge and the empirical data, the research shows that the hostel constitutes a type of lodging, in alignment with the transformation trends of tourism and the lodging sector. Signals, which indicate the singularities of this type of lodging, refer to the search for adequacy to contemporary conditions, as well as the recovery of values and the use of means in the communication weave, since the direct interaction and also the use of technological resources. This survey is linked to Amorcomtur! - Group of Studies in Communication, Tourism, Lovingness and Autopoiesis!, and also to the project "Tourist-Communication-Subjective Ecosystems: Theoretical-Methodological Flags, in the study of tourist-communicational-subjective ecosystems, considered from their characteristic ecosystem, chaosmotic and autopoietic, "developed in the Post- Graduation Program in Tourism and Hospitality of the University of Caxias do Sul (Brazil). The research was supported by the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).