O lazer dos agricultores familiares promotores do turismo: o caso do roteiro turístico Caminhos do Marrecas no Sudoeste do Paraná

Abstract

Rural tourism is considered one of the strategies that allow family farmers increase their income and the consequent improvement in their quality of life. Many studies handle this issue, but there is a gap in order to understand leisure from the perspective of farmers promoting tourism. This study sought to understand what is leisure and what are it practices from the family farmers's viewpoint who promote rural tourism in their properties in the municipality of Francisco Beltrão in the Southwest of Paraná. The research was the qualitative, descriptive and exploratory Character, sampling survey was non-probabilistic, with collection of data and information in five phases, being used as search strategies and tools, recorded interview based on the screenplay, semi-structured direct observation with field journaling and interview with semi-structured form, being tabulated data with Excel and Word 2013 2013 software, and presented as graphs and tables, and subsequently interpreted the light of theoretical review. The importance of tour offered by family farmers, more than the increased income, is related with significant moments of personal and social growth experienced by farmers in contact with tourists and with more interesting ways of working than agricultural activities. The leisure of the interviewed people has traits that demonstrate attachment to their way of life, considering aspects of their traditions, habits and customs, in relation to the family get-together, with the community in which they are inserted, in addition to the work and activities of the reproduction and to establish tourism activities, strengthen the construction of a rationality of resistance, where it operates at the same time an adaptive logic to assimilate external demands, and innovative to generate responses to enable the biological and social reproduction of the family.