Community based tourism and intangible cultural heritage in northeast Brazil.

This paper aims to contribute to the discussion about the complex link between Intangible Cultural Heritage with tourism. For this, at first, we will address UNESCO s perspective on approach tourism with the intangible cultural heritage contrasting it with anthropological analyzes resulting in large-scale, of Anthropology of Performance (Anderson, 1982; Schechner, 1985) and Tourism Anthropology (Grunewald, 2003). Secondly, we analyze the configuration of some routes of Tourism Community Based (TBC) and uses by those of ethnic knowledge circumscribed in traditional ways of life and social organization in the states of Ceara and Sergipe, in northeastern Brazil. In the last step, we will detail the methodology used by the Institute for Research in Technology and Innovation (IPTI), a private non-profit entity, when preparing the Participative Management Plan for Tourism in the municipality of Santa Luzia do Itanhy (SE), held in 2011, with the support of Ministry of Tourism. After the study of some successful cases and proposals for implementation of TBC by developing new models of tourism planning in the northeastern region of Brazil, it was possible to establish a direct relationship between community-based tourism management and its connection with the culture, identity and the intangible heritage.