Periódico: Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research
Fonte: Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research; Vol 3 No 1 (2020): Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research; 311-322
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Resumo: This paper addresses the preliminary results of an exploratory process, started in 2019 by the Interdisciplinary Research Board on Culture and Development for the Northern Huetar and Caribbean Regions, National University, Sarapiquí Campus. The main objective of this work is to make visible the tourist cultural and gastronomic potential presented in Limon downtown, for the territorial development of this urban area of the Costa Rican Caribbean region.
The document starts its reading with a brief geographical, sociohistorical, demographic, cultural, economic, tourist and environmental contextualization, of the territory which is being analysed.
Afterwards, it addresses a theoretical approach and research problem which questioned the Costa Rican dominant tourist development model, towards the potential of the cultural tourism in the “heart” of this Caribbean metropolis, since the recognition of its architectural and gastronomic richness.
The methodological strategy used, started from a bibliographical study, no participative observation, and a conscious, horizontal and accurate field work, with key participants, immersed in social dynamics linked to architecture, gastronomy and tourism in the delimited territory.
Its conclusions prospect the opportunity of a tourist development model for the Costa Rican Caribbean. It focussed on the collective benefit (inhabitants of the territory) over the individual benefit (transnational delocalized enterprise), that includes its cultural richness as a transversal axis. Demonstrating through worthy findings towards architectural and local gastronomy, real possibilities for the benefit of Limon province.
