Os legados das exposições universais e o turismo

Abstract

The Universal Exhibition is a kind of mega event, which for its planning, organization and implementation, causes a number of political, economic, social and urban interventions in the host cities. After the events, these interventions stay available for the population and also to be used by the Tourism. The objective proposed by this study was to identify these interventions considered legacies, to categorize them and to verify that they are being utilized by the Tourism. The survey was conducted to search concerned answers as: why countries and/or cities are so committed to host this kind of event? Which legacy this kind of event leaves to the host cities? This legacy is related to the tourism industry? In order to find these answers, the research was structured in theoretical axes that showed how the activity/fair emerged, since its origin and evolution until being an universal exhibition, the institutionalization and the regulation of the universal exhibition; how is the planning, organization, conduction, closure and results of the universal exhibition, the possible legacies and their relations with Tourism. This made it possible to and the hypothesis that the legacy left by universal exhibition (registered) is being exploited by tourism or only by the event tourism. It was concluded that the universal exhibition always leaves some kind of legacy in the host cities, and, that its use by both the population and the tourism, depends on the destination that the social actor involved in organizing the event will give to these goods