Estação Primavera: uma proposta de plano de requalificação para o Parque Ecoturístico da Cachoeira do Urubu em Primavera

Abstract

Pernambuco is known as one of the fastest growing in terms of tourist activities in recent years. The state has several tourist attractions that stand out in the local, national and international tourist scenery, such as the Ricardo Brennand Institute, Marco Zero in the city of Recife, the Botanical Garden of Recife, Paço do Frevo and others. Despite the popularity in various tourist segments, Pernambuco is also a popular destination for ecological tourism, revealing several natural attractions in parks, such as the Catimbau National Park, the Dois Irmãos State Park, the Fernando de Noronha National Marine Park. , among others. However, despite the tourist importance of this segment for the region, it is noted that there is still an underutilization of some of these parks, as is the case of the Ecotourism Park of Cachoeira do Urubu, located in the city of Primavera, South Forest Zone of the state. It is a green area that has one of the highest waterfalls in Pernambuco and which contributes to the environmental balance, leisure and income of the city's residents, but which is in a precarious conditions of conservation and maintenance and needs urgent improvements. . Therefore, in order to increase the tourist and leisure visibility of this Park, the present work aims to present a proposal for a requalification plan, enabling actions that provide better use of the tourist and leisure potential of the space. For this, a diagnosis was made about the current infrastructural conditions of the Park, together with the analysis of the opinion of the main people involved in the process, these being: visitors, local residents, managers and entrepreneurs. Based on the data obtained, it was observed that the Park is turistically, economically and culturally very important for Primavera, as well as the fact that the Park needs to go through improvements and that the management needs to improve the dissemination plan are common sense. In this sense, it is proposed the implantation of diversified spaces that value the local culture and contribute with the leisure and attractiveness of the varied public. This proposal is accompanied by a dissemination plan, a list of necessary resources, budgets, possible sources of resources and technical and legal measures to ensure its implementation. Finally, it can be concluded that the requalification plan can meet the need for infrastructure renovation, expand access to leisure in the city and leverage the flow of visitors to the place, in order to expand tourism and the ecotourism experience among residents from Primavera and Zona da Mata, as well as visitors from Recife, Metropolitan Region and others.