Express Tourist Luz - Mogi das Cruzes: evaluation on the attractiveness of tourist trains

• Grant number: 12/20998-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: May 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Tourism
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Romero de Oliveira
• Grantee: Nathália Nogueira Scoriza
• Host Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rosana. Rosana , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Our study object Express Tourist Mogi das Cruzes. This train is a service provided by the secretary of transportation and metropolitan by CPTM, between São Paulo and Mogi das Cruzes, with tourist purpose. The goal of the project is to study the Express Tourist Luz - Mogi das Cruzes as tourist attraction, to promote discussions and observations as the profile of the tourist who practice this activity, general information about the Express from their infrastructure, to acquire information about the experience that the traveler experienced on the ride and if your initial expectation was saturated with the chosen route. And for that we will use as exemplified in the methodology, some tools, such as literature, documentary research, interviews, and research observe identification form the structure used. (AU)