Participation and Decision in Rural Tourism: an analysis from a gender perspective

Abstract

The Brazilian countryside is undergoing reinterpretation in recent decades, which has led to the emergence of heterogeneous and multifunctional socio-spatial dynamics. In response to this changing environment are new ways to use the countryside related to the consumption of new products and services, it was only producer of raw materials, go to a service provider through options leisure, diversifying their productive ways. This diversification has changed the pace of local and family life, the structure of the organization of family labor as well as social and cultural values of the agents involved. Therefore, it was proposed as objective to understand the power relations of working families in rural tourism enterprises. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews with seven pluriactive families in the municipality of São José dos Ausentes in Rio Grande do Sul.