Impactos de programas nacionais de turismo sobre as instituições e organizações turísticas nos municípios do Pará (Brasil).

In this study it was analyzed the question of how the public power in its several Brazilian spheres has historically established stimuli to the tourist activity from an economic approach and its repercussions on the institutionalization of municipal tourism. The Tourism has been consolidated in the governmental agenda as a vector of economic development. Despite their effects on the local scale, only these actions were directed to the involvement of Brazilian cities. Thus, the methodology consisted in the selection of 23 tourist cities, considered as priorities for the government of Para State (Brazil) and assisted by national programs. The results of this exploratory and descriptive research revealed the institutional and organizational profile of tourism, at the local scale, based on interviews and documentary consultation conducted between 2013 and 2016. Then, it allowed a reflection on a decentralized management for the tourism development, in the case of Para Cities. So, it was presented important results for the design of actions to improve municipal tourism management.