Hostelry: tourism indicator in the landscape transformation of Florianópolis

Abstract

The tourism, as an important articulator and inductor of consumes in this period of growing globalization, increases valued environments by undertakings. Florianópolis became an important touristy capital because of its privileged geographic location and the existence of many rich natural environments. The spatially of the related data about the hostelry of Santa Catarina Island, with geographic information system (GIS) help, allows understanding inductors elements of urban space transformation in the use and occupation analyses of the landscape. In three base years: 1980, 1994 e 2004, it has been mapped the total number of establishments, beds and bedrooms of Florianópolis city. Establishments’ propagation in new areas causes a more and more spread environmental deterioration in the territory. Therefore, politics definitions for a sustain tourism development for the entire Florianópolis city are required.