DO TURISMO DAS ÁGUAS MINERAIS AO TURISMO EM ÁREAS RURAIS: a microrregião de São Lourenço (MG).

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2014.5932 Changes in society's interests reflect the appropriation of urban and rural areas for tourism practices. Because of this, successive transformations coexists in receptors tourist centers, which results in different socioeconomic and space arrangements in a given territory. The present article means to show how the turistification process happened in the micro-region of Sao Lourenco (MG), in which, originally, the phenomena developed itself in the springs, in urban environments, and, brought upon by the soaring importance of nature and rural spaces by society, other localities, previously exclusively agrarian, are the new focus of sizeable investments in tourism.