Community-based tourism in the Kalunga territory: a look at the Quilombola Community Vão do Moleque, in the municipality of Cavalcante - GO

Abstract

This article proposes to study community-based tourism in the Kalunga territory and evaluate how tourism has been developing in the Quilombola’s Communities located in the Kalunga Historical Site and Cultural Heritage, in the northeast of Goiás. For this purpose, it was chosen as the main focus , a community in Vão do Moleque, located in Cavalcante - GO. As a general objective, it was proposed to verify how tourist activity has been developing in Quilombola’s Communities, especially in the Vão do Moleque Community. For the methodology, it is based on the need to understand the Kalunga socio-territorial reading and the inclusion of tourism in the place, using the following methodological steps: bibliographic review, through the survey of theoretical-methodological references on the theme of tourism; Then, surveys were carried out on the main tourist attractions in Quilombola’s Communities, using fieldwork and interviews with tour guides and community residents. Finally, analyzes and maps were carried out for later writing of the text. It is possible to observe tourism consolidating the importance of the community without reducing the number of communities. Community-based tourism can be a good alternative for generating income and inserting traditional communities into tourist work, related to guiding activities at attractions and selling handicrafts and offering accommodation and food. The Vão do Moleque community, the focus of this research, presents tourism in an incipient form, but there was a lot of expectation on the part of the community to consolidate themselves in community-based tourism, as occurred in the neighboring community: Engenho II.