Educação em turismo em escolas ribeirinhas: estudo de caso na comunidade Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro do Tumbira, Baixo Rio Negro, AM

Abstract

The objective of this study is to study how Tourism Education at the Thomas Eugene LoveJoy State School, in the Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro do Tumbira community, is worked on and what its contribution is to the education and citizenship of students. The community is located in Iranduba, a municipality in the interior of Amazonas, within the limits of Conservation Units included in the Lower Rio Negro Mosaic of Protected Areas. We used the work Educating Educators in Tourism: Manual for Education in Tourism and Hospitality proposed by Chris Cooper and the World Tourism Organization, in a qualitative research, integrating the interview and observation. The socio-economic context of Tumbira in a Sustainable Development Reserve in the Amazon and the work of third sector institutions over the years, influenced the community to work on community-based tourism as an alternative source of income and because of this, several projects and initiatives in the context of formal and non-formal education, with the aim of preparing young community people for the new reality of conservation units, as well as as labor for tourism activities. The study indicates that projects and initiatives contribute greatly to the training of young people, but that much can still be done to improve the tourism education proposal.