Circuito da fé em Jaboatão dos Guararapes

Abstract

The guiding theme of the project intends to create a cultural and religious tour route. Willing to diversify the flux of visitors in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, it was idealized a tour route with three churches of the city, with historical motivation, great place or unique characteristics. The theoretical background identifies concepts concerned to cultural and religious tourism, statistics about tourism in Brazil and examples of religious routes in many parts of world, besides of the economical importance of this sector and the relationship with Pernambuco’s and Jaboatão dos Guararapes history. It was proved, by the touristic inventory of Jaboatão dos Guararapes the under exploration of the region. It was developed a quantitative research, with nineteen questions, divided into four discursive issues and fifteen multiplo choice, with a total of two hundred responders. The datos were counted for a result interpretation. The intervention proposal were divided into three: creation of a virtual route, divulgation in social media and a presential route with accessibility for disabled people.