CORRELAÇÕES ENTRE TRANSPORTE E DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO APLICADAS AO TURISMO: UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DO MUNICÍPIO DE CALDA NOVAS / GO - BRASIL

Understanding the elements that potentiate the economic development of a certain locality becomes necessary in the managerial sciences and planning of touristic destinations. Collaborating with theoretical gaps related to the particular analysis of transport activities and their impact on tourism, this study seeks to identify the economic relations between tourism and road transportation of people in tourist cities, being adopted as a reference the case of Caldas Novas / Goias / Brazil, one of the main tourist destinations in the country. From the use of economic data and the characteristic of people transportation, statistical models has been used to analyze, for example, the impact of the increase of vehicles to public transport at the gross domestic product of the municipality, demonstrating the levels of impact between the variables considered. Such results can be used to manage the transport activities and for the planning of tourism.