O ECOTURISMO E A SUSTENTABILIDADE - PARQUE ESTADUAL DA SERRA DOURADA GO (PESD)

Abstract

The ecotourism in Conservation Units has been growing on a fast way. In Goiás state is the Serra Dourada State Park - SDSP, located in the districts of Goiás, Mossâmedes and Buriti de Goiás, located 131 km from the capital, Goiania - Go In this study examined the possibility of developing a sustainable ecotourism in the SDSP, held a discussion about tourism, sustainable tourism and ecotourism. Characterized the city of Mossâmedes and its relationship with SDSP, has also made the diagnosis (inventory tour) resources that there are in the SDSP (Vegetation / Florest / Ground / Wild animals and Natural Resources). Methodology used was an exploratory research through visits to the SDSP, qualitative and quantitative through a questionnaire among the Mossâmedes population. Most people who participated in the research knows what is a AEP - Area of Environmental Protection and believes that the SDSP should be exploited by ecotourism. It was noticed that the SDSP was created only by a government decree and that in practice the SDSP is totally neglect in (without infrastructure). Do not have the management plan and doesn t have environmental education activities to visitors. It was observed that the holding of a precarious leisure that can not be considered ecotourism. Through the tourist inventory carried out in the SDSP found that the potential for the development of ecotourism are enormous and that depends on the political mobilization of civil society and community in general as a way to stimulate concrete action in favour of ecotourism.