The Construction of a Story: Project Development and Promotion of Brazilian Tourism

Abstract

The article analyzes the construction of a history of tourism in Brazil from the tourist practices developed in Vargas, focusing on incentives and projects developed by the Government, which was used in the Department of Press and Propaganda (DIP), together with other divisions, for the promotion of domestic tourism to foreign audiences as well as for the local population, lay in relation to the natural diversity and the Brazilian cultural manifestations. After careful analysis of papers published in the 1930s and 1940s, belonging to the collection of the National Rio de Janeiro Library, we found that the Vargas era marked a time of extreme importance for the historical tourism construction in Brazil, which has become understood as an engine of economic development, cultural and social for the country.