BENEFIT FOR WHO?

THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SPACE AND ITS IMPACT ON A RURAL COMMUNITY ON THE NORTH COAST OF BAHIA

Abstract

The public policies that began to be implemented in the North Coast, from the 1970s, were aimed at promoting tourism development. Through a qualitative case study, based on a socio-ethnographic perspective, we seek to relate, how the tourism industry, implemented in this region, has impacted the rural community Curralinho socially, economically, environmentally and culturally, as well as the migratory movement are new routes are inserted and others have their sense restructured due to the new economic and spatial configuration. It is concluded that tourism has resulted in gradual disruptions and permanent and irreversible changes in the organizational structure of this group with regard to traditional economic activities, sociability, occupation of territorial space, as well as (re) structuring of new migratory routes. Curralinho was compelled to internalize new concepts and recreate them, resisting to survive as a group.