Turismo rural e desenvolvimento territorial em São Pedro Frio-ES: avaliação de potencialidades

Abstract

The municipality of Colatina-ES is known for its very high temperatures all year round, but it also needs to be recognized for its mountain climate. The community of São Pedro Frio presents a bucolic landscape, with ancient and temperate traditions and a climate with 7ºC below the average of the state. The place, besides being very promising, still presents difficulties to develop itself as an identity and enrich its culture, revealing its diversity to tourists and visitors. Despite beautiful landscapes, a temperate climate and a welcoming people, attempts to develop the territory have not had the expected effect due to the lack of joint planning: entities, public and private authorities and actors in the region. This research has the general objective of analyzing the potential of the São Pedro Frio region, through territorial development with rural tourism as the main structuring axis. Studying the territory with specific mapping techniques together with the social actors themselves, verifying conditions to establish an organic solidarity with the associative instances of the place and applying cultural interventions capable of recovering the tradition and potential of the region, can promote the development of the mountain at levels and provide visitors with different experiences related to local culture, rural tourism and agrotourism