Celebrations and local development in Cachoeira, Bahia

Cachoeira, a historic town among the most culturally expressive cities of the Recôncavo da Bahia, it is also known for the many celebrations it holds every year. This city makes celebrations to promote the cultural tourism, realize its potentialities and stimulate its economy. The aim of this paper...

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Autores: Ricardo Oliveira Martins, Sérgio, Rodrigues de Matos Oliveira Martins, Waleska
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB)
Repositorio:Interações (Campo Grande. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.multitemasucdb.emnuvens.com.br:article/3037
Acceso en línea:https://interacoes.ucdb.br/interacoes/article/view/3037
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:celebration
tourism
culture
local development
Recôncavo da Bahia
festa
turismo
cultura
desenvolvimento local
fiesta
desarrollo local
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Sumario:Cachoeira, a historic town among the most culturally expressive cities of the Recôncavo da Bahia, it is also known for the many celebrations it holds every year. This city makes celebrations to promote the cultural tourism, realize its potentialities and stimulate its economy. The aim of this paper is to analyze the local development of Cachoeira, which is also promoted with the celebrations. This study adopts a procedural approach to the history and the social and economic reality of Cachoeira, in addition to participant observation in its daily life and, above all, June celebrations in the last four years (2016-2019). It was verified that Cachoeira is experiencing a new economic dynamism, with significant social advances, with less dependence on external resources and a growing local capacity to promote investments based on own resources. It is concluded that cultural tourism, based on the promotion of festive events, has been one of the most important bases of local development in Cachoeira.