The use of geolocation to understand spatial practices of tourists and resi-dents

Abstract:

The tourism urbanization process materializes the necessary infrastructure for tourism in the territory. With this, it acts in the formation of centralities focused on meeting the needs of leisure and entertainment, leaving everyday use conditions in the background. The question arises about the relationship between tourists and residents in the appropriate territory for tourism urbanization. The established objective was to understand the spatial practice of tourists and residents in the territories of tourist urbanization in tourist destinations Gramado and Canela, RS and São Joaquim and Urubici, SC. Data were collected using the application programming interface. The data collected was based on the hashtags for the posts used in references to the tourist destinations under analysis. The database formed added the following items: identifier, geolocation, and date of posting. The results indicated that the number of tourist posts is significantly higher than that of residents. Regardless of the origin of the posts, the geolocations are concentrated in central areas influenced by iconic elements and tourist attractions. Thus, it was possible to perceive that the process of appropriation of tourism urbanization has repercussions on the use of urban territory, contributing to the use of tourists to prevail over the use of residents.

Keywords:
Tourism Urbanization; Spatial Practices; Tourists; Residents; Geolocation