GEO Brasil - UNEP

4.7.1. Tourism
policies feedback
Tourism can become a powerful development factor in
certain areas. This is true as long as the existing human
resources are capable of assuring its implementation and
related activities at all levels.
When Brazil gives priority to the tourism industry, the country
will be following two tendencies iat global plan. There are
increase in travel and international tourism, and expansion
for specialised tourism. These will take place in the spirit of
a growing interest for nature and preference for well
preserved areas.
Therefore, sustainable tourism depends on the mobilisation
ability and the activities taken on the communities. This
ability is necessary so as to limit the tourist flow at an
adequate level in relation to the visited areas in social and
environmental terms.
The Brazilian Company of Tourism, nowadays denominated
Brazilian Institute of Tourism (Instituto Brasileiro de Turismo
- EMBRATUR) should create more fiscal incentives and funds
to motivate and stimulate tourist activity and the expansion
of the corresponding infrastructure.
The National programme of Tourism Municipalisation
(Programa Nacional de Municipalização do Turismo - PNMT)
should stimulate sustainable tourist development of the
municipal districts, based on the economical, social,
environmental, cultural and political sustainability adopting
the following procedures:
a) Decentralise planning actions, co-ordination,
execution, monitoring and evaluation, motivating the
organised sections of the municipal district to
participate in the formulation and in the coadministration
of the Sustainable Development Plan
of Municipal Tourism.
b) Make available, to the Brazilian municipal districts with
tourism potential, technical, organisational and
management conditions for the development of tourist
activity. By April 2001, 1,476 municipal districts had
been involved in the programmeme.
On the other hand, the Action programmeme for the
Integrated Development of Tourism (Programa de Ação para
o Desenvolvimento Integrado do Turismo – PRODETUR/
NE), is a global programmeme of regional tourism
development. It is structured to finance the implementation
of a supporting infrastructure to tourism that includes nine
states of the North-east region and should also be extended
to the South and North regions.
With regards to Ecotourism, a National Policy is being
implemented through joint work between EMBRATUR and
MMA/IBAMA (Ministry of the Environment/IBAMA). This
Policy has the objective of harmonising ecotourism activities
with the conservation of natural areas.
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