Turismo de eventos e o desenvolvimento articulado com a sustentabilidade: desafios para a gestão pública local e regional em Tombos, Minas Gerais (MG)

Abstract

Event tourism is relevant to the development of tourist destinations from a local and regional perspective. Therefore, the general objective of the study was to identify the challenges facing local and regional public management in Tombos, Minas Gerais, with regard to event tourism and development linked to sustainability.The research is exploratory, descriptive and qualitative in nature. It was carried out in three stages: (1) a bibliographical survey to create a conceptual theoretical framework on tourism and events from the perspective of local and regional development; (2) the collection and organization of georeferenced secondary data, using QGIS 3.8 Zanzibar software; (3) the planning of Tombos' official events calendar. The results show that there are 22 official events (n=22) on the Tombos events calendar, with the highest number occurring in July and December each year, and 45% of these events are tourist events, i.e. influencing local and regional development. In the results and discussions, strategies were outlined to collaborate with the local and regional development of tourism, in a sustained manner, from the perspective of public management.