CONTRIBUIÇÕES DA ABORDAGEM GEOSSISTÊMICA PARA O TURISMO DE CÁCERES - MT

Abstract

It is argued that, despite tourism’s dependence on landscape and its natural and cultural attributes, tourism planning often overlooks the integrated dynamics of environmental systems. In this context, this study aims to demonstrate the contributions of Georges Bertrand’s geosystemic approach, through the GTP (Geosystem–Territory–Landscape) framework, to integrated landscape analysis applied to tourism planning in Cáceres. This quali-quantitative study is based on the characterization of the municipality’s physical-natural components, using cartographic and statistical data, combined with land use and land cover analysis and the interpretation of landscape representations. The results identify three major morpho-environmental compartments: the Pantanal, the Depressions, and the Serrana Province. The Pantanal is predominantly associated with fishing tourism, despite its potential for diversification into wildlife observation, birdwatching, and scientific tourism. The Depressions concentrate urban and tourism infrastructure, favoring event-based, cultural, and business tourism. The Serrana Province, characterized by dissected relief and waterfalls, presents localized tourism practices alongside significant potential for the development of nature-based tourism, birdwatching, adventure tourism, and geotourism. It is concluded that the GTP framework enables a systemic understanding of tourism by integrating environmental potentials, constraints, and territorial dynamics, thereby overcoming fragmented landscape analyses that may hinder the expansion and qualification of tourism planning in Cáceres.