Fishing tourism in the Amazon biome

Abstract

This article seeks to understand Fishing Tourism as an activity that induces sustainable rural development. Rural tourism is an economic activity apt to be practiced by rural settlers of agrarian reform in view of their dynamics of use and appropriation of natural resources in the Itanhangá Settlement Project, located in the Amazon Biome of Mato Grosso. The objective was to get to know and analyze the social actors and their labor practices based on the process of political, social, economic, cultural and environmental organization. The research was based on the collection of primary data (life trajectories of the settlers) in the format of the participant field research and publicly-based secondary data (Brazilian Agricultural Census), theoretically based on rural sociology. Endogenous initiatives and alternatives constructed to economic, social, cultural and political restrictions were analyzed, able to elevate social actors to the level of rural development. Rural fishing tourism has the conditions to become an economic activity capable of achieving sustainable rural development.

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