Gestão pública do lazer o caso do Parque Municipal de Lazer e Turismo de Salvador das Missões/RS

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of Public Administration for the promotion and organization of leisure in their territory. It deals with the relationship between the society and leisure, contemporary conceptions and attitudes about health promotion and also reports the case of the Parque Municipal de Lazer e Turismo de Salvador das Missões, created due to the implementation of a hydroelectric plant in the city, which is located in the micro region of Missões, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The creation of this park is the event that raises the reflections in this study, whose nature is exploratory and descriptive, and uses bibliographic material, documents, field research, case study, action research and participative research, thus constituting a qualitative work. There is a need for intervention by public authority in the management of leisure in their space, especially justified because the responsibility for the social body’s welfare is not transferable. The results show that is possible to develop a project of leisure that can served the interests of the local community and including involved them in your elaboration, as well as is possible to attribute to the tourism planning the condition of softening of the impacts arrived with hydroelectric implantation.