TOURISM MANAGEMENT: PRACTICES, SYMBOLISMS AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH STAKEHOLDERS

Tourism management is a complex activity that involves practices and symbols throughout its implementation. However, little is known about these elements related to each other at different levels (State, private sector, tourists). This essay aims to understand tourism management through the articulation of studies on symbolism and approaches to practice. The research adopts a qualitative approach and was developed based on data collection in scientific databases using the keywords: tourism management, practices and symbolism. Then, an analysis of descriptive narratives from national and international literature was carried out, which contributed to the construction of the results. The findings reveal that tourism management is intertwined and permeates the different levels (State, private sector, tourists), evidencing how tourism management uses different practices and symbolism tourism development.