Desenvolvimento do turismo ou desenvolvimento turístico: reflexões com base em duas regiões atrasadas em São Paulo

Abstract

The paper provides a discussion of the necessary and sufficient conditions for a tourism-based process of economic development to take place in a lagged region. A distinction is made between development of the tourism in a region (increase in this activity above the regular trend) and development of a region through tourism (creation of multiplier effects that will activate the region's economy). The cases of two lagged regions in São Paulo State are considered as examples. The Pontal do Paranapanema region is considered to have conditions only for the development of its tourism sector; the Vale do Ribeira region, however, seems to have all the necessary conditions to face development through tourism.