Connections between Community-Based and Solidarity Tourism and the Creative Economy: a literature review from the Brazilian context

Community-Based and Solidarity Tourism (TBCS) occurs through community self-management, aiming to collectively create and develop visiting activities that value local resources. Despite these characteristics of using community creativity to strengthen its economic potential, TBCS has been little associated with the concept of Creative Economy (EC) - including in Brazil, where its practices have been very evident. In view of this, this article analyzes how Brazilian studies have addressed the relationship between TBCS and EC. To this end, an integrative literature review was carried out, based on the Peri & oacute;dicos CAPES portal. Data interpretation occurred using thematic content analysis technique. As a result, it was identified that national research has not widely articulated the TBCS to the EC. It was observed that most of the works indirectly deal with this relationship, by addressing the topic of education in the tourism sector to enhance cultural identity and endogenous innovation. Studies also show that the changes brought about by the economic creativity of the TBCS can reduce the rural exodus resulting from the lack of local opportunities. In this way, this research advances the understanding of how EC has been linked to a certain tourism management model that defends sustainable principles - which is a gap in the literature, considering mainly studies located nationally.