O contributo do turismo doméstico para o desenvolvimento local do Município de Inhambane

Abstract

Currently, tourism is not merely an activity only for foreign tourists who are well off financial, but rather constitutes activities planned even for internal residents of a country, whether they are high, medium or low income through community or group tourism that minimizes costs and makes more accessible and inclusive activity for everyone. It is from this perspective that domestic tourism emerges, in which the tourist is the resident citizen himself. The object of study of this research work is the contribution of Domestic Tourism for local development in the Municipality of Inhambane. The main objective is to understand how domestic tourism contributes to the local development of the Municipality. The reason for the choice of the topic concerns the need to develop studies focused on domestic tourism that serve as a foundation for future research, since the activity is seen as a driver of transformation of society that promotes social inclusion, employment opportunities, new investments, income and entrepreneurship as well such as development. As for the methodology, a survey was applied to prepare the work. exploratory and qualitative-quantitative, following the phases: preparation of data collection instruments for field work; identification of the universe and delimitation of the sample; for data collection in the work of In the field, bibliographic review techniques were used; the virtual survey and the interview, and continued with the data processing and analysis, and finally writing and communicating the results. The conclusion of the study shows that despite still being little practiced, domestic tourism provides several economic benefits and socio-cultural aspects that contribute to the local development of the Municipality of Inhambane, and to leverage its In practice, there is a need for the government, the private sector and some associations to provide the right to paid vacation to its workers with a view to encouraging them to practice the activity. tourism entrepreneurs for their must create packages with reduced prices exclusively for domestic tourism.