Turismo em Gramado : as pedras no jardim das hortênsias

Abstract

The discussion that we propose to make in this work concerns the socio-historical determinations of capitalist development, inserting tourism in this context in order to unveil the existing contradictions in the plot and its relationship with poverty and the living conditions of workers who use social assistance. who had professional experience in this field. Not denying the importance that tourism has for the economic growth of cities, we question whether it has contributed to their development and to the fight against poverty. This discussion is necessary and urgent, bringing the profession of Social Work to the debate on the topic of tourism, as it is an activity that has been growing and occupying the spaces of the city, often in order to exclude and make workers feel strange. Furthermore, tourism used as a commodity directly affects the living conditions of workers who use social assistance. To carry out the research, the historical dialectical materialist method was used, in order to know and unveil the reality mediated by totality, contradiction and historicity, these being the dialectical categories used in this investigation. For the analysis of reality, in order to identify phenomena that help us explain our research problem, explanatory categories of reality were used, which in this context are: tourism, development and poverty. The focus of the research is mixed (quanti-qualitative), with a view to ensuring a deeper investigation about the object of study, and for the analysis of qualitative data the technique of content analysis will be used.