2016/07/13 by Tatiana Heidorn Alvarez de Aquino Pereira · 1 citation
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism #Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research #Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements #Residence #Tourism #Geography #Real estate #Government (linguistics) #Estate #Tourist attraction #Business #Cartography #Environmental protection #Political science #Sociology #Finance
paper · pdf · doi:10.11606/d.91.2016.tde-05072016-182745
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Hidromineral Águas de São Pedro (SP) and the construction of tourist space dedicated to hydrotherapyThis paper discusses how the waters of São Pedro, located in the center of São Paulo, formed in the 1930s as a space oriented to tourism, the thermal potential.To date the health resort has in the main tourism economic activity, however our research seeks to understand the primary attraction of the city is related to medicinal waters, or other unique characteristics of small town like tranquility, natural beauty and safety, make it a place conducive to walking.We try to understand why among so many choices of inner cities available in Sao Paulo Aguas de Sao Pedro is chosen as a fixed place of residence, place of establishment of second homes, the scene of a major real estate growth, thus unveil which resort factors are responsible to attract tourists and vacationers/second residence tourists.The survey data were obtained by means of literature, direct observation, informal conversations, questionnaires, and interviews with various socio-economic actors, such as residents, tourists, vacationers, hotel chain, trade, real estate and municipal managers.The results show that the city has had several tour cycles and that despite the health resort of Aguas de Sao Pedro is a regional and even national reference thermal waters, and the government is investing to present to society a place full of quality life, health symbol, a large proportion of tourists looking for the city by walking, dining and shopping, featuring a hiker tourism without overnight.Why the city has been undergoing major restructuring landscape orchestrated by the government, and receiving increments of private power as regards the variety of products and services offered.We realize that the largest share of locals and tourists do not have the habit of using medicinal waters, even though the source of sulphurous water, also called the "Fountain of Youth", used for intake and therapeutic baths, it is the second best in the world, surpassed only by the source of Pergoli in Tabiano, Italy (CAMARGO, 1990), but the recognition of the city as a city of water, spa town, city health, is resilient.