Mapeamento de competências empreendedoras: protagonismo juvenil no turismo comunitário de alagados (ACTOUR) na Península de Itapagipe

Abstract

Mapping entrepreneurial skills is a fundamental practice for the educational and professional development of young people who carry out tourism activities in civil society organization collectives on the outskirts of large centers. Seeking to understand this topic, research and development was carried out at ACTOUR, a collective that is part of REPROTAI, located on the Itapagipana Peninsula in Salvador, BA. This territory has 14 neighborhoods with potential for community tourism, however, it is historically marked by social and racial inequality, despite the community's confrontation. Social management as a principle for territorial development was the fundamental theory to study the entrepreneurial skills that emerge from youth protagonism through community tourism actions in the territory. Thus, the objective was to map entrepreneurial skills based on community-based tourism actions in the Itapagipe Peninsula led by young people. Qualitative research was carried out through a single case study, with the researcher acting as a non-participant observer, in addition to interviews with young people and managers and documentary analysis. It was found that the 15 skills listed by EntreComp (2016) were found to a certain extent in the training actions developed by ACTOUR; standing out in the area of “Ideas and Opportunities”: identifying opportunities and vision; ethical and sustainable thinking; creativity; and, valuing ideas; in the “Resources” area: motivation and perseverance; self-efficacy and self-efficiency; and, mobilize third parties; financial and economic literacy; and, mobilize resources; in the “Action” area: working with others; take the initiative and deal with uncertainty; ambiguity and risks; and, plan and manage. The results showed that entrepreneurial skills at ACTOUR emerge through experience combined with knowledge offered by the collective in a shared and dialogical way with various social actors and partnerships in the territory, breaking with traditional banking teaching in the process of mapping entrepreneurial skills.