Animals in Tourism: the case of São Lourenço, MG, Brazil

Abstract

This article’s objective is to describe the experience of visiting São Lourenço city (MG), and its focus is on the use of animals in touristic activity. The article brings up a brief discussion on morals and ethics, and suggests, besides changes in the State’s view on animals, the construction of a new ethic for tourism. In order to achieve this, a descriptive research was made, along with a case study and document analysis, enabled by a participative view with the insertion of the researcher in the presented reality. It is expected that each visitor may rethink their concepts towards the use of horse-drawn carts in touristic sites and, from that fact, to suggest a constitutive moral, which transforms itself into a constituted moral.