Bacharelado em Turismo no Brasil: História e contribuições da Universidade Federal do Paraná

Universities are founded on the construction and dissemination of knowledge to society, graduating professionals and citizens in different areas of knowledge. In this reality, Parana Federal University (UPFR) stands out in the field of tourism, since his bachelor degree in tourism is one of the pioneers of the country. Thus, given the historical importance of UFPR for the bachelor's degree in tourism in Brazil, the socio-historical research of this course provides a contribution to the history of undergraduate education in tourism in Brazil. Thus, this research aimed to conduct a socio-historical research on the bachelor degree in tourism in Parana Federal University. For that goal it was elaborated a theoretical framework approaching of the history of graduation in Tourism in Brazil as well as its challenges and prospects. In the sequence, the data were collected through documental research and the interviews were analyzed by content analysis. As a result it is observed that the bachelor degree in tourism of UFPR has gone through by several transformations in its structure, especially in the curriculum. Its contribution is present through hundreds of graduated people, many projects related to research and society which generating new knowledge in the tourism area. Thus, from a market attentive perception, critical in relation to sociocultural reality, aiming at a whole formation, the course reaches its recognition.