Design de sistemas para a sustentabilidade: estratégias para o turismo ecoeficiente no centro histórico de São Luís

Abstract

A city with a rich cultural heritage like São Luis finds in the tourism the possibility to break the barriers that make difficult the sustainable development of its historic center and all the population of that area. The current work aims to identify strategies to promote eco-efficient tourism in the region known for its world heritage, supporting in the System Design for Sustainability and using the Product-Service System (PSS) methods and tools. For this, we used the exploratory research and field research, interviews and questionnaires to collect data of the socio-economic actors linked to satisfaction units – host, feed and entertain. Besides the intention to launch the challenge of dealing with cultural tourism by a still little explored bias in the context of Design, research has generated new attitudes strategies, new partnerships and new ventures for its development in the historic center. Thought the intervention priority levels have been accused as low, the results show that this type of social innovation can add value to the environmental eco-efficiency, ethical-social and economic to the cultural heritage, to the local community and the actors of tourism productive stream in a exceptional form, showing thus the social and technical interests of such research seeking a effectively boarded in sustainability tourism.