LEISURE AND TOURISM FOR DEVELOPMENT ON HUMAN SCALE

Abstract

Leisure and tourism has important role in the contemporary world and are related to development as generators of opportunities in the professional world and as indicative dimension of people’s living quality. The expansion of services is a good opportunity to accomplish studies focused on theorizing this sector, leading to valuable discussions about development. In that sense, considering that different means to the word development are attributed, a brief critical review is present is present since the understanding of the word as synonym of growing to the ideas from the 19701s when there is advance on the conception that development id related to people and not things. Conceptions of development and the model of hegemonic development, hence the model of hegemonic tourism, are questioned. Tourism is related to development model in which it is projected, hence the necessity of re-think tourism is identified generating other ways of developing it beyond hegemonic model. Local development in human scale is highlighted. Results allow further analysis, listing possibilities and development initiatives on human scale through tourism.