Hospitalidade no empreendedorismo feminino: atuação das mulheres anfitriãs em povoados goianos do caminho de cora coralina

Abstract

The Caminho de Cora Coralina was inaugurated in April 2018 as a tourist route for pedestrians and cyclists, passing through 8 cities, predominantly historic and 8 villages, in a 300 km path between Corumbá de Goiás and the city of Goiás, in the region central in Brazil. This is a recent tourist route, which honors the poetess and short-story writer from Goiás Cora Coralina. In the search for material on this path and in occasional incursions to some of its villages, the role of women as hostess and entrepreneurs in welcoming travelers was noted. Therefore, an exploratory and qualitative research was developed based on the ethnographic method, aiming to investigate the hospitality exercised by women hosts of hosting enterprises in the villages of Caxambu, Radiolândia and Palestina. Fieldwork took place in July 2021, with data collection through participant observation, and semi-open interviews with three hostesses. The results obtained revealed that there was an adaptation of a domestic space in the hostess' house on a farm in Caxambu; construction of a private space in the form of an inn in Radiolândia with financing resources through a credit line from Goiás Turismo; and the transformation of a given public space for the adaptation of a “hostel” in Palestine. It was noted that each hostess offered different hospitality practices, reconfiguring the daily life of these locations and the relationships with their guests. The hostesses share practices such as welcoming the traveller, welcoming, giving circularity, solidarity, advocating respect, tolerance, coexistence and the well-being of the cyclist or hiker guest. The narratives of these women bring an individual, particular, singular speech, an experience of each one of them, with cultural traits of the region.