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FRATUCCI, Aguinaldo Cesar. The Process of Construction of Tourism Regional networks: The Tourist Region of Agulhas Negras-RJ, Brazil. Estud. perspect. tur. [online]. 2011, vol.20, n.6, pp.1483-1496. ISSN 1851-1732.

This article aims at analyzing the process of constitution of tourism regional networks established from the structuring of networks-territories in regional scale. Having as theoretical basis territory-network and regional network basis as well as the tourist region of Agulhas Negras-RJ as empirical object, this text proposes that the consolidation of tourism regional networks may structure new public-private instances of tourist development reordering, as in the case of CONRETUR Agulhas Negras - RJ. In order to do that, structured researches have been used, mainly from the technique of participant observation, besides personal interviews and electronic means.

Palavras-chave : Regional-network; Network-territory; Region o the Agulhas Negras-RJ.