Abstract
Tourism has the production method of adapting the territory with infrastruc-ture and tourist services. This process leads to questioning how the relationship between tourism and urban sprawl changes coverage and land use. This article aims to analyze the relationship between tourism and urban expansion based on changes in land use and land cover in Gramado, Brazil, from 1996 to 2018. For this purpose, satellite images were acquired, that after the generation of the poly-gons, they resulted in a time series with quantitative information on the classes of coverage and land use throughout the decades. The interpretation of the data set collected from the bibliographic, documentary research and the observation in situ allowed to analyze the urban expansion in Gramado. The results show the progress of the class of area built mainly in the class of native vegetation vec-torized by the tourist infrastructure installation. In this context, it is possible to understand that there is a relationship between tourism and urban expansion that develops by changing coverage and land use.
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