Community-Based Tourism in Protected Areas with sustainable use of natural resources in Brazil: to think management practices ; Turismo Comunitario en Unidades de Conservación de uso sostenible en Brasil: para pensar las prácticas de gestión ; Turismo de Base Comunitária em Unidades de Conservação de uso sustentável no Brasil: para pensar práticas de gestão

Community-based tourism has been considered a fundamental strategy to understand and support conservation, value the attributes of nature and culture and the very process of management of protected areas. The first initiatives emerged in the mid-1990s in the North, Northeast and South regions of Brazil, characterized by a strong component of participation and protagonism of the local community in the process of planning and management of activities. These initiatives are presented, above all, in defense of their traditionally occupied territories, which, for the most part, are linked to the protected areas with sustainable use of natural resources. The article seeks, thus, to analyze the perceptions of local actors and institutional interlocutors on community-based tourism in federal protected areas with sustainable use of natural resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering four experiences: Guapi-Mirim Environmental Protection Area (Rio de Janeiro) Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu (Rio de Janeiro), Prainha do Canto Verde Extractive Reserve (Ceará) and Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve (Pará). The main results achieved revealed numerous opportunities for community-based tourism in protected areas with sustainable use of natural resources, lessons learned and difficulties faced locally. ; El turismo de base comunitaria se ha considerado una estrategia fundamental para comprender y apoyar la conservación, valorizar los atributos de la naturaleza y de la cultura y el propio proceso de gestión de unidades de conservación de la naturaleza. Las primeras iniciativas de esa práctica surgieron, a mediados de la década de 1990, en las regiones norte, nordeste y sur de Brasil, caracterizadas por un fuerte componente de participación y protagonismo de la comunidad local, en el proceso de planificación y gestión de las actividades, sobre todo, en defensa de sus territorios tradicionalmente ocupados, que en gran parte están vinculados a las unidades de conservación de uso sostenible. El artículo busca, así, ...