O TURISMO CULTURAL NA CIDADE DE MATA GRANDE-AL

Abstract

This geotourism study entitled "Cultural tourism in the city of Mata Grande-AL" aims to identify the most visited geotourist attraction in the municipality of Mata Grande in the state of Alagoas to the point of providing a constant flow of tourists. Considering this city as tourist due to its geosymbol this cultural heritage. The objective is to classify which categories best conceptualize tourism in the Matagrandense territory; also to analyze how the tourist presence can cause some implications to the patrimony, to verify if the government agencies responsible for the tourist development have acted with projects or actions that promote the tourism of Mata Grande-AL. There are several concepts that categorize tourism, so, with the interest of understanding this phenomenon, the method chosen for the research was the phenomenological one. In order to understand this subject, bibliographic surveys were carried out. The data obtained from the questions of the questionnaire carried out during the field research will be shown in tables and charts disclosing the tourists' responses.