Desenvolvimento e validação de instrumento para identificação do ciclo de vida das destinações turísticas

Abstract

Touristic destinations’ life cycle model proposed by Butler (1980) arose from a marketing adaptation. Today, it is one of the tourism theories most prestigious and cited in academic works. That research seeks to answer the question: What characteristics must be contemplated on the research instrument, able to identify the certain touristic destination life cycle stage? To identify the stage in which the destination is, it takes to build a tool that allows collecting data required to this end. Therefore, this research has, as general objective, to develop and validate an instrument that allows identifying the certain touristic destination life cycle stage. To answer the question of the study, exploratory and descriptive research, technical and bibliographic procedures and case study were used. It was possible to validate the instrument proposed in Caminhos de Pedra gaucho touristic destination and identify that in it there is a characteristics predominance of the involvement and development stage. Therefore, it was found out itself, that the characteristics contained in the research instrument enable identifying in which of tourist destinations’ life cycle stage is determined destination.