Decolonizando o turismo a partir de experiências com a ayahuasca na Região Metropolitana do Recife - RMR (Pernambuco-Brasil)

There is a touristic movement that attracts people from all over Brazil and around the world to the Metropolitan Area of Recife (Pernambuco-Brazil) seeking an experience with the Ayahuasca, an ancestral tea used in religious rituals of healing by many indigenous groups from the Amazon Rainforest. This article aims to understand the reasons for these displacements and whether it is possible to call them tourism, ethno-tourism, religious tourism, or mystical tourism. A qualitative methodology was used based on the analysis of interviews and reports. Contact with nature, self-awareness, connections with the divine, with something spiritual and mysterious, healing of the body and the soul, the non-separation between the physical and the spiritual, the welcoming manner and safety provided by the locals and the contact with the native people were mentioned in the reports of those who took the Ayahuasca in the Metropolitan Area of Recife, indicating the complexity of these experiences, as well collaborating to the understanding of tourism decolonization.