The Tourist Attractions in Curitiba - PR: An overview by Guia Brazil Quatro Rodas

Authors

  • Franciele Cristina Manosso Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • Camila Bizinelli Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • Cinthia Maria de Sena Abrahão Universidade Federal do Paraná.
  • José Manoel Gonçalves Gândara Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v9i1.728

Keywords:

Tourism, Tourist Destinations, Tourist Attractions, Tourist Guide Books, Curitiba – PR.

Abstract

The tour guides books can be worked as relevant instruments for the dissemination of destinations, because encompass information about the destinations' attractions, equipment, infrastructure and tourism services. Then, the tourist can through this, conceiving a destination’s image that will visit, because with the elements worked by the guides, they can get a comprehensive view of what is offered by the destination. Therefore, this article has as objective the analysis of the tourist attractions in Curitiba’s city, according to Guia Brazil Quatro Rodas, presented in the years 1989, 2001, 2013. Thus, the paper aims to also highlight how the document presents the city to its visitors, analyzing the description and the photographs that are showing Curitiba to the tourist. For this, was used as methodology the literature's and documents' research, the latter being applied to observe which attractions, description, and photos were used in the dissemination of Curitiba in the Guia Brazil. As the study results, it can be noted that there was an increase in the number of tourist attractions in Curitiba presented by Guia Brazil Quatro Rodas, and some of these have progressed in the respect of their classification, in the other words, they have improved in quality. Another issue is the publication’s evolution in question the destinations’ presentation to the reader, because more information came to be published, and also began to be used photos to show to the tourist the Curitiba destination.

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Author Biographies

Franciele Cristina Manosso, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Mestranda em Geografia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Bacharel em Turismo pela Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Camila Bizinelli, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Mestranda em Geografia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Bacharel em Turismo pela Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Cinthia Maria de Sena Abrahão, Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Graduada em Ciências Econômicas pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (1990), mestre em História Econômica pela Universidade de São Paulo (1998) e doutora em Geografia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Docente na área Gestão Empresarial pela Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor Litoral e do Programa de Mestrado em Turismo da Universidade Federal do Paraná.

José Manoel Gonçalves Gândara, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Graduação em Turismo (Bacharelado) pela UFPR. Mestrado em Gestão do Turismo pela Scuola Superiore del Commercio del Turismo i dei Servizzi de Milão. Doutorado em Turismo e Desenvolvimento Sustentável pela Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canária. Professor e Pesquisador do Departamento de Turismo, do curso de Graduação em Turismo, do Mestrado e Doutorado em Geografia e do Mestrado em Turismo da Universidade Federal do Paraná.

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Published

2015-04-22

How to Cite

Manosso, F. C., Bizinelli, C., Abrahão, C. M. de S., & Gândara, J. M. G. (2015). The Tourist Attractions in Curitiba - PR: An overview by Guia Brazil Quatro Rodas. Revista Brasileira De Pesquisa Em Turismo, 9(1), 97–120. https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v9i1.728

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): January/April

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