The Inventory of the Tourist Offer as a Community Dialogue Strategy: a Case Study about Sempre-Vivas National Park and its Surroundings

Abstract

The Tourist Offer Inventory is an instrument used to diagnose everything that a destination offers to tourists. It includes tourist attractions, tourist equipment and services and infrastructure. Moreover, it is an important tool for planning and managing tourism activity. When carried out in partnership with the local community, this research may contribute to the dialogue between the management team and the community covering the Protected Areas (PA) surroundings. This strategy was adopted in this study to raise tourist offer in the districts located around Sempre- Vivas National Park. It focuses on developing partnerships in order to implement public use in the PA. Thus, we opted for a participatory work, guided by the Community Based Tourism model, considering the communities as protagonists of this process. This study aimed to contribute to the implementation of public use in the Park, by searching and analyzing the tourist offer of attractions in the surrounding districts. To this end, bibliographic research, documentary research, fieldwork and data treatment were carried out with the involvement and participation of members of the community. As a result, it is clear that this project, although not yet concluded, contributes to a greater understanding of the tourist potential of the districts which support the crossing between Inhaí and Curimataí. Besides, the management objectives of the PA are more easily achieved, mainly those related to public use and the approach and dialogue with local communities.