Navegando Mestrado em Ecologia e Evolução (ICB) por Assunto "1.Rio Araguaia 2.Ecologia humana 3.Valoração ambiental 4.Percepção ecológica 5.Demanda turística"
(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2006-07-31) SANTOS, Manoel Eloy de Melo Oliveira dos; CARVALHO, Adriana Rosa; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1951710128353552
The Araguaia River has became one of the greatest point to the ecological
tourism in Goiás region, due to its natural beauties such as beaches throughout its margins. The
unplanned tourism may cause negative consequences to natural resources, thus to know the profile of
the tourist and their knowledge concerning to the whole environment is an important tool into the
ecosystem conservation. The Araguaia River is a food plain river, and it has several cities alongside
the river, such as Aruanã, considered the entrance to Araguaia Valley. As many as 65% of tourists in
Aruanã are men with mean age of 36 years old and married, with a high education degree and
coming from Goiás. The tourists usually remain 10 days in Araguaia River spending an average of
US$ 61,7 per day. The Araguaia River is the main attractive to 45,3% and fishing is preferred activity
to relax to 24,2% of these tourists. Despite the tourist activity be quite connected to the ecosystem,
the ecological wisdom of tourists about vegetation and ecological cycles are low, and 30% of them
consider that they do use any natural resources, compromising the integrity of the ecosystem by the
bad utilization of environmental services of Araguaia River, in Aruanã region.