Avaliação da sustentabilidade da exploração do turismo e lazer do lago de Itaipu: os casos de Foz do Iguaçu, Guaíra e Santa Helena - Paraná

Abstract

This study tried to analyze the tourist sustainability of Lago de Itaipu (aipu Lake) considering the proposal established by Government from Parana with the City Hall around the Lake, that is called “Projeto Costa Oeste” (West Coast Project). A project for the West coast. The project proposes to create infrastructure for the development of tourist activities and leisure along Lago Artificial do Iguaçu, a Brazilian territory. If the size of the area present difficulties we will consider just fe cities like Foz do Iguaçu, Santa Helena and Guaira. The survey considered the secondary data available at the public and private institutions which are working in this field of study and used the primary data through a quick diagnosis and interviews: different kind of interviews were used; life history, group, closed and opened; collecting the information about the results of the first years of the project application from 1996 until February, 1999 when the research was made. The application of infrastructure in area seeking to compensate the loss as a result of overfiow, which presents positive aspects (freeways, parks, restaurant, mosks, events, etc.). However some municipal districts have been far from the pofitic of integration from the government, and others have presented a relatively autonomous performance stimulated by the figures in royalties continually meceived from Itaipu as a reward by the loss caused by the overfiow. The attempt for integration among Itaipu, municipal and state Governments and private initiative has met some barriers. Even so, many benefits has been reached by the infrastructure available to the population and environment area, specially in the lake and its zone. In some cases, the project collaborated for the partial sestructuring of the municipalities damaged by the overflow. About the Nature World Games, there was a little involvement of the local population, except in the trade. They created a structure that is being used, checking the effectiveness of public politics, committing the tourist offer, goods and services to the society. Concluding, therefore, that the public politics are an important strategy for fhe development of society that must be used in the searching for solutions for the community. This politic should be joined to others in a continue and effective way to assure the benefits to the society in a short and a long term. The articulate action of all the measures will enlarge more and more the results presented that reach a larger number of people and demanding that the role of the state foreseen by the Brazilian Constitution that assure the well living, the development, the equality, and the justice as supreme values of a sustainability society.