O turismo rural. Óbidos: um caso de estudo.

Abstract

Having considered the tourism as a mean to improve natural resources from a particular place and with a prominent impact on economic life, it seems that it is straightly responsible for transformations in landscape and also on urban' territory. This research intends to give some evidence around the changings on rural territory and socialeconomic impacts as a result of tourism. In addition, it will provide a better perception of diversity in terms of destinations to whom that have to decide their personal holidays' plan. The Tourism is responsible for a huge increase in mobility which the major outcome is the significant number of tourism projects constructed in order to respond positively to demand. Throughout the paper will raise the perception that the concept of tour will get trivial. It has started to be faced as a good that exist to be consumed, governed by time and space considered like operation basic of arrival at destination (for example, the plane). The destination is not the same as in the past, where thousands of people have travelled for a set of reasons, such as religion and the "Grand Tour". Nowadays the motivations behind the tours have changed and resulted in large movements of people. It is in that field that arquitecture takes a contemplative, historic and iconographic function, in order to find some connection with the market, i.e., improving the tourist supply in order to satisfy the variety of tourism demand. However, the touristic offers have not been optimized by Suppliers, with respect to the high number and exaggerated arquitecture' styles available to tourists. That exaggeration is the cause of set of images and symbols that helps to proliferate the diversification of touristic destinations. How do the tourists see this world? In fact, it is through the illusions and an attempt to walk away from the daily day which take them to find that destinations. The mains propose of this research is to know the real meaning of tourism and to discover how it works on rural territory throughout arquitecture. After all, what will happen to a rural environment without functions and economic profitability? Which are the those lands and its people?