O agroturismo e as transformações sócio-espaciais em Venda Nova do Imigrante, ES

Abstract

The rural, space therefore only used for tradicional farming activities, incorporated new forms of use, including the Agroturism. This type of rural turism is related to the expansion of the capitalist mode of production, especially in the context of globalization. Was analysed the reality of the new forms of prodution of rural space to understand the transformation that Agroturism has caused in the Venda Nova do Imigrante city, in the Espirito Santo state. For that was made interviews with employers and owners of sixteen farms, political and economic agents besides specialized literature that had given origin to the described methodology in this dissertation. In the mentioned city the Agroturism involved several sectors of society, like education and services, as an important agent of space. To the families who developed the activity there was a increase in income and jobs. With regard to infrastructure, greater care with the landscaping of the properties surroundings, appropriate environmental practices and proper sanitation were the main changes. Besides that, it was notice the valorization of the traditional practices associated whit the cultural habits inherited by the Italian ancestors.