Fonte: Turismo y Sociedad; Vol. 32 (2023): Enero-Junio; 271-299
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Resumo: Hiking in the nature is a modality of rural tourism that proposes that rural communities organize circuits for commercialization of products. The objective of this paper was to analyze the social relations networks formed between the participants of this rural tourism modality in the Vale do Ivaí Territory, Paraná State, Brazil. Through intentional non-probabilistic sampling, 42 semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2015. The networks of social relationships that were formed on nature walks are based on strong and weak ties. It is concluded that there are strong ties in the subnetworks and that the weak ties are found between the subnetworks, which guarantees the fluidity and dynamics of the network.
