Políticas públicas estaduais para o turismo de eventos culturais no interior do Estado de Pernambuco

Abstract

This dissertation aims to evidence that public institutions, involved in the tourism of the Cultural Events in Pernambuco´s countryside, have policies destined to the local needs, respecting cultural identities and attending in a fair mood the different regions of the State. The main questions which we intended to analyze and respond were: Do the public institutions, involved in the cultural tourism events in Pernambuco's countryside, have appropriated policies to their local needs? Do they respond to the cultural identities? Through the perception of the respective managers on these activities and considering such events as vectors of local development, it was possible to perceive the panorama of these events in the Pernambuco's countryside.The analysis, based on the managers´ speeches about public institutions involved in the cultural event's management and considering the attendance to the municipalities, made possible the proposition of pertinent considerations about Public policies proposed by these agents. The research is characterized as a theoretic and empirical work in accordance to a qualitative approach. The main research instruments included: documentary analysis relating to policies and institutions involved, as well as interviews using semi-structured technique which were held with the managers of theses institutions. As a result, it was observed, in the last five years, an increase in cultural policy in the state, including its countryside. However, the interiorization of such police is still not satisfactory to the internal region. In previous managements, the cultural event's policies in Pernambuco used to contemplate only metropolitan area. On the other hand, this investigation verified that the inertia, in the past, was broken. These policies have sought to respect local identities and do not attend, mostly, cities with low Human Development Index. Finally, the development resulted of these policies was not measured in quantitative dimensions due to the limitations of this research on accessibility issues, time and other variables.