Refleting on the management of tourist spaces: prospects for regional tourism networks

Abstract

To argue the space dimension of the tourism and its management in the context of the public policies directed for its order and development is the main focus of this paper. One is about a developed theoretical reflection from the participant comment of the author in last the thirty years in the process of tourist development of the state of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Based in the agreement of the tourism as complex socioespacial phenomenon, result of the processes of different producing agents, considers the agreement of the tourist space from the category of network-territories that tend if to extend for the regional scale. Questioning the indifference of the recent public policies directed for the order of the Brazilian tourism, suggest the possibility of the consolidation of regional nets as new instances of governance for such function, since that they are fruits of endogenous processes, participative and really democratic that constitute in a new "space-time" favorable to the democratic deliberations.