The Relationship between Tourism Development and the Gentrification Process in Pirenópolis (GO)

Abstract This paper aims to understand the relationship between gentrification and tourism development in Pirenópolis-GO based on spatial configuration. It focuses mainly on the tourism policies integrated by the municipality and their consequences, which encompass concrete and symbolic issues experienced by the individual in space. The paper is qualitative, and data were collected from documentary research, semi-structured interviews, and non-participant observation, which were analysed in the light of content analysis. The results show that state action focused on tourism-related economic activities overlaps social, cultural, historical and environmental relations. Indeed, gentrification is expressed in concrete aspects with the removal of the marginalized population from that centre to increasingly distant areas in substitution for the business class coming from outside the city, and symbolic, since individuals begin to feel a loss of value cultural-historical heritage and do not feel like an integral part of the new space designed for tourism.