Turismo e desenvolvimento económico em territórios rurais: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

Tourism can be seen as an activity that may contribute to the development of rural areas. In this context, this article aims to analyze scientific studies that have been published on the potential impacts of tourism on the development of rural areas. In order to achieve this objective, searches were carried out in a database of scientific articles (SCOPUS), yielding a total of 123 articles published in the last decade resulting, after filtering out, in twenty articles that were considered relevant to this study. After analyzing the articles, we can conclude that: (i) the authors are relatively consensual regarding the importance of tourism for the development of rural areas, (ii) two main dimensions of analysis emerge in the articles analyzed, namely the impacts of tourism and the perceptions and attitudes of residents regarding tourism in rural areas, (iii) quantitative methodologies stand out in the empirical studies developed, especially when analyzing the perceptions of residents, with the survey being the most used data collection instrument. The paper concludes with some reflections on research needs in this area.