THE TOURISMO AND THE REVALUATIONS OF RURALITIES

Abstract

In the same proportion that the process of urbanization advances, grows as well the valorization of the field’s life representations. The growth of the demand, characteristic by urban citizens, whom search for the bucolic scenario of countryside, turns these spaces and the quotidian lifestyle in it, objects of consumption to be exchange as a mercantile product through the tourism business. In this context, explode the speeches about the activity as a developing tool to the regions, which suffered with the results of unequal growing promoted by the modernization of agriculture. The rural demography and the rural flight, as result of a modernized agriculture, have compromised the permanency of agriculture workers, whom searched for alternatives to its maintenance. This way, the tourism, one of the non-agricultural activities those, gradually, multiply in the countryside, giving as well to this space a high level of urbanization, stars to be pointed as alternative activity of income to peasants of poorer areas of fields. The purpose of this research, therefore, was to investigate how tourism follows revaluing the ruralities of the Central-Occident Mesoregion in Paraná. The dialectical method was used to the realization of this object’s study, once it presumes the dynamic and panoramically interpretation of the facts, supporting the analysis of its contradictions. The final results showed that the characteristics of tourism and revaluations of ruralities delegate to the rural areas of Mesoregion a set of simulations of the ways of life and production of "traditional agriculture", considered until recently as a backward and archaic activity by the modernization of agriculture.