Água mineral, fonte da vida: uma estância hidromineral e o crescimento econômico: São Lourenço uma cidade jovem e seu futuro

O foco dessa dissertação é direcionado ao levantamento diagnóstico do Parque das Águas da cidade de São Lourenço - MG, mais especificamente à importância das águas minerais como bem cultural. Pesquisei em duas frentes: dados colhidos junto a secretaria de turismo (SERVTUR) e duas pesquisas quantitativas. Para aprofundar a reflexão optei também pela realização entrevistas qualitativas com pessoas de diferentes perfis de renda, cultura e profissões. Partindo daí, norteei os trabalhos no levantamento de informações que possam servir como parâmetros para a elaboração de estratégias de ação nas mais diversas frentes de trabalho voltadas ao desenvolvimento do turismo e da cultura naquela cidade.

Perspectivas Acadêmicas em São Luís: A Aproximação entre o Estudo do Turismo e a Ciência da Administração

This is a master's degree dissertation that has for main objective analyzes the relationship among the areas of the knowledge, tourism and administration, under the optics of contributions in different instances, establishing analogies and reflections, tends as empiric field, the case of the municipal district of São Luís, in Maranhão State. It approaches the epistemology analysis of the tourist phenomenon discussing the employed speeches, faiths, myths, dependence, virtues and sins in the interpretation of the study. It points subjects related to the context of higher education in tourism, establishing connections with the management in a theoretical atmosphere, demonstrating the roads of evolution of the study, as well as, it permeates on analogies and reflections with tourism. It questions on the current scenery of degree courses in tourism, making connections with beginnings management studies. The proposed study, characterized as descriptive-explanatory of object, it bases on model Tourism Education Quality (TEDQUAL) near from objectives, to involve researches - documental and a field - accomplished in the years of 2005 and 2006. As sample for quotas, accomplished four universities, to presents results the expectations of analyzed subjects (students, profesionals, employers and educators) on the group of hypotheses. That spectrum of results makes possible reflections and proposed based in analysis on perspectives in superior tourism education. The research was limited the studied area and chosen sample it intends to be a tool to show the reality found in those courses, could address academic researches and practical actions developed by the education managers.