Tourism Planning: Research for Sustainable Development

This assay aims to investigate some questions referring to the planning of tourism and its relevance, as contribution, for sustainable forms of development. In this way, the importance in pointing out the planning in a historical, social and political context, presenting an analysis about the evolution in tourism planning, and later reflects about some definitions presented by experts in this area. Next, emphasize the relevancy involving the sustainable planning and its contribuition to the regional development. In a methodological point of view, this application privileges the descriptive character, from a bibliography review.