El potencial turístico gastronómico de la región del Pantanal desde la perspectiva de los residentes

Abstract

The tourist region of Pantanal is explored having a diversity of tourist products. The typical food has a great potential to be transformed into a product, due to the traditions, forms of occupation and housing, with indigenous, colonizers and explorers’ influences, as well as all the cultural identities present in the territory, denoting the appreciation of local identity. From this perspective, it was detected in loco that the gastronomy is little explored in tourism, being only a component that adds value to the main tourist product of the region, the tourism linked to nature and all its forms of consumption. From this context, the aim of this research was to identify the gastronomic tourist potential from the perception of the residents about the typical dishes that can be considered tourist products. As methodological procedures, it was used literature and document review, with exploratory research with qualitative and quantitative approach. A questionnaire was subsequently analyzed with simple percentage technique. For the qualitative data, it was used the Content Analysis technique (CA) of Bardin (2011). As result, the typical dishes of Pantanal were identified and the emergence of new dishes considered typical by the residents. And for the residents reconstruct the identity of some dishes can help to preserve the originality arising from the cultural history, and this, understood as fundamental for the residents of the region, since they preserve the history of this territory.